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Are weapon (gun, knife,) designers, manufacturers, distributors, or sellers liable for how killers use their product to cruelly or unusually harm persons denied
by throwaway356cda 4y ago
Are weapon (gun, knife,) designers, manufacturers, distributors, or sellers liable for how killers use their product to cruelly or unusually harm persons denied Due Process of Law?
What sorts of mandatory and charitable investments could reduce such harms, due to which parties' positive or negative actions?
Is the telephone utility liable?
- hackerlight 4y agoThey are partially responsible. They are not liable because the law doesn't currently enforce that responsibility. Law != moral responsibility.
- throwaway356cda 4y agoResponsible in the same way that a grocery store is responsible for selling a tomato that was thrown? Title II Common Carrier, government-granted monopolies ISP: Internet Service Provider Section 230 Information Service Provider Business of Public Accommodation You can't make them serve a gay cake to a gay wedding. You don't need a public guest list for a private party at a private golf club. You can't make them let problem gamblers in (at the now-at-least-federally-legal and now-online) casino. Per the bench
- hackerlight 4y agoObviously there's a spectrum of responsibility, with some companies bearing more and others less. The grocery store is a poor analogy though because they're not actively facilitating tomatoes being thrown. If they incentivized tomatoes being thrown through social mechanics then I would place more blame on their shoulders. Also you're talking about current law here. I'm not interested in the current state of affairs. I understand Twitter and Facebook aren't breaking the law if they facilitate organization of a genocide. I'm talking about what should be the case. Perhaps laws need to be updated.