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>eating disorders, self-harm, illegal firearms and drugs like fentanyl. Lawmakers are trying to combat online child sex abuse material too Eating disorders: No
by senttoschool 3y ago
>eating disorders, self-harm, illegal firearms and drugs like fentanyl. Lawmakers are trying to combat online child sex abuse material too
Eating disorders: No. It's not illegal.
Self-harm: No. It's not illegal.
Illegal firearms: Ok.
Fentanyl: Ok if it's illegally produced.
Child sex abuse: Ok.
Just follow existing laws.
- hedora 3y agoI’m not sure the social media companies are liable for promoting the above. They’re not liable for publishing it (which is reasonable, since otherwise they would need to approve every post). Ultimately, the law needs to figure out who is liable for actions taken by machine learning algorithms.
- senttoschool 3y agoI'm not saying social media companies are liable. Someone needs to be liable for any illegal activities. Most likely it's the user.
- hedora 3y agoSo, an anonymous user from overseas produces a bleach cleanse video, and then YouTube displays it on the home screen feed of 100,000,000 users, and 100 people try it and die. Surely, Google should share some of the liability.
- the_lego 3y agoShould it? Such liability inevitably results in only "verified" content getting "promoted" - an extremely vague term. First it's the home screen, then related videos, then 1st page results for searching "cleanse", etc. Soon any kind of user content hosting becomes legally impossible without acceding to some kind of government-approved (it will be private, but require "good standing") censorship agency.
- senttoschool 3y agoPornhub now only allow verified users. It no longer allows any revenge porn, or porn uploaded without permission. In other words, it no longer allows illegal porn activities. Payment processors and governments forced them. Why not Youtube, Google, Facebook, IG, etc? Is one illegal activity more illegal than others?