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Its absence almost ensures the death of open forums anywhere on the internet. Nobody is going to take the legal risk of being held responsible for what some ran
by Karunamon 6y ago
Its absence almost ensures the death of open forums anywhere on the internet. Nobody is going to take the legal risk of being held responsible for what some rando on the other side of the planet said.
On the other hand, it would lead to the proliferation of distributed, decentralized systems where there's not a good way to demonstrate culpability for a suit, so maybe burning down Facebook is a nice side effect of a kind of decentralization that would be more healthy in the long run anyways.
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoI wonder if it would result in something like what you said where every user hosts their own social media hub which only hosts their own content. But would the responsibility fall down to the one who owns the machine running the software? Is digital ocean responsible for the post I host on a vps in their datacenter?
- tim333 6y agoAlternatively it might lead to centralized forums hosted from countries who are not bothered about the liability stuff. China etc.