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Linking this explicitly to safe harbour like you've done is important -- the knee-jerk response online is often to condemn Facebook for not policing content but
by repsilat 8y ago
Linking this explicitly to safe harbour like you've done is important -- the knee-jerk response online is often to condemn Facebook for not policing content but to defend content hosters for not being able to filter out all instances of copyright violations.
Maybe those positions are held by different people, and maybe there's some good-faith "make an effort" middleground, and maybe the standards should be different because nobody dies when someone pirates Westworld, but they're clearly analogous.
If we do have different standards we should be able to back it up with argument, and try hard not to let how much we like the companies colour our judgement.
- Nasrudith 8y agoNot to mention that the impossible remains so even in if it is for a good cause.
- Kalium 8y agoThe middle ground is a great place to be if you want to take fire from everyone. In terms of legal and regulatory risk, it's an incredibly hazardous place to be because it has few defenders and many attackers. Personally, I'm uncomfortable with the idea of demanding that megacorporations do censorship for us on whatever arbitrary standards they can be convinced are good.