I love the hitchhiker's reference. The post was well written and covered what I think are the important points. There's only one thing I think deserves more a

I love the hitchhiker's reference. The post was well written and covered what I think are the important points. There's only one thing I think deserves more attention than she gave it: The economics. The US' place in the tech world is largely a result of limited barriers to innovation in tech. The kinds of "duties" proposed by this bill would be bad for big tech (a huge part of the economy) but worse than that they would be prohibitive for new innovators. New social media services which attempt to serve the increasing demographic of people disillusioned with big tech aren't even going to try to get into a market with draconian requirements amd potential legal obligations like those proposed (or those that logically follow from the proposals). Which means those services will be built elsewhere or not at all. And of course there are the innovations we haven't imagined yet which won't be allowed to happen.