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All web services need to basically be classified as either a utility or a publisher, and be regulated accordingly. They've been in this gray area, picking and
by fullshark 5y ago
All web services need to basically be classified as either a utility or a publisher, and be regulated accordingly. They've been in this gray area, picking and choosing to appropriately navigate the law / PR crises as they arise and clear regulations are simply required.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoYou may not like them, but the regulations are very clear. None of them are utilities. There was some effort to make ISPs common carriers, but the last administration nixed it.
- humanrebar 5y agoCongress could always, you know, do their jobs and actually fix the law. As to one bureaucratic choice or another, we've had enough turnover in the White House in the internet era that "the last guy broke this" doesn't really cut it. New executives can always issue new executive orders. It's just whether they want to bother or not.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoMaybe. I think the common carrier thing was done with administrative rule making, which is a whole different process. I don’t think executive orders can overrule that, but I’m not a lawyer.