Re:Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U....
by danShumway on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:13AM
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That's fair -- I will grant you that there's a lot of uncertainty about what would happen now. I don't think it's completely blind, I lean towards "there are predictable negative effects", but we don't really know. And it's totally reasonable for someone to be less certain than me.
My response to that though is still that uncertainty is not a great position to be in when passing laws. I would point at SESTA/FOSTA as examples of legislation in the same rough category that looks like it should make sense, and then gets passed and has a lot of side-effects that turn out to be really bad for everyone. If SESTA/FOSTA had passed and everything had gone wonderfully, I might be more open to other conversations about adding additional liability.
My response to that though is still that uncertainty is not a great position to be in when passing laws. I would point at SESTA/FOSTA as examples of legislation in the same rough category that looks like it should make sense, and then gets passed and has a lot of side-effects that turn out to be really bad for everyone. If SESTA/FOSTA had passed and everything had gone wonderfully, I might be more open to other conversations about adding additional liability.