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Yeah this seems like it might actually have a reversing effect on platforms' stewardship of their content. Now that they only have to "knowingly facilitate", th
by cmpb 9y ago
Yeah this seems like it might actually have a reversing effect on platforms' stewardship of their content. Now that they only have to "knowingly facilitate", they'll probably defer to being on the safe side of not "knowing" in the first place.
Or is that explicitly disallowed by some other text in this statute or by some other law? For instance if Google made it absolutely impossible (e.g. w/ strong crypto) for them to "know" what's inside their users' emails, is there some law that could force Google to undo that (ostensibly in the name of national security or something like that)?
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThis is an interesting point. The issue is with them knowing about it, as much as them not removing it. Implementing real privacy does provide an out here, business models that revolve around data are really the only thing that gets hit hard here. I feel like data platforms got themselves involved, the platform immunity excuse stopped holding, when they started doing their own content moderation to begin with. Once they decided to remove content they didn't like, were they not implicitly endorsing the content they left alone?