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My point is that the dodge wouldn't work if the company had to actively assist in making the product work on a highway and had enough data to determine that the
by daveFNbuck 7y ago
My point is that the dodge wouldn't work if the company had to actively assist in making the product work on a highway and had enough data to determine that the product was being used on a highway.
The dodge relies on customers being in control of whether the law is broken. You can buy any of these products and use them only in a car that you tow between locations where it's legal to use. The dodge works because the company can't tell whether that's what you're doing.
- dodobirdlord 7y agoIt goes further than that though. People mostly don't have a requirement to police each other's behavior, and by extension companies mostly don't either. It's reasonable to assume that your users use your product in compliance with the law. A cloud storage provider isn't required to ensure that their users aren't storing illegal data like stolen government secrets or child porn. It's certainly within their power to check if the stored data is illegal to possess, but they don't have to, and they're not on the hook to do anything more than turn it over to authorities if the user gets busted.
- daveFNbuck 7y agoPeople providing services that are restricted for children generally do have a duty to make at least a nominal effort to ensure that children aren't using the service. You check ID when selling someone alcohol. You have people indicate that they're 13 or 18 when using your website. If you don't do these simple things, you can be on the hook. The Alexa version of this is that Amazon says they won't record children without consent. The lawsuit is about whether they're doing this.