> People don't want the tech companies to provide the consequences for breaking the law, they want tech companies to do a better job preventing the law from bei

> People don't want the tech companies to provide the consequences for breaking the law, they want tech companies to do a better job preventing the law from being broken in the first place. And yet no one seems to hold anyone other then "tech companies" to the same standard. No one expects the phone company to preemptively identify and block stalkers, or monitor the content of people's phone calls to filter out threatening or offensive language. No one expects the postal service to do the same for written correspondence. No one expects the people managing parking lots to prevent people from driving without insurance or licenses, or newspapers to vet the intentions of whomever is still posting classified ads in print media. The internet is just a digital version of the same sorts of communication tools and public gathering spaces we've always had. Why would we expect people who are providing tools to communicate with each other to preemptively police conduct of their users, when we don't expect the same (and would likely find it intrusive) from the offline venues that they're analogous to?