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You realize this law has nothing to do with web-filtering right ? What this law means is if a UGC website is used by an individual for the purpose of harassmen
by ig1 14y ago
You realize this law has nothing to do with web-filtering right ?
What this law means is if a UGC website is used by an individual for the purpose of harassment, the UGC website won't be liable for it as long as they co-operate in allowing the individual responsible to be prosecuted directly.
It essentially gives UGC sites safe-harbour protection whereas before they could have been considered responsible for the content themselves as publishers. The legal responsibility is pushed back onto the individual who created the content, which is exactly how it should be.
- novalis 14y ago... to push action from a site to reveal someone that will be up for legal process. You can word that a lot of ways, but to define harassment through online communication is the sort of overreach needed to make sites do the dirty work with no due process or checks. Just the pathway. To provide a path for easy censorship is another way to put it, but you selectively left that out.
- nitrogen 14y agoWhat this law means is if a UGC website is used by an individual for the purpose of harassment, the UGC website won't be liable for it as long as they co-operate in allowing the individual responsible to be prosecuted directly. AKA "Give us names and you walk."