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How so? This is just the UK. While the UK really does want to enforce this globally, they really have no enforcement power against non-UK citizens who do not
by kelnos 2y ago
How so? This is just the UK. While the UK really does want to enforce this globally, they really have no enforcement power against non-UK citizens who do not reside in the UK.
Certainly it's possible (and perhaps likely!) that the EU and US will want to copycat this kind of law, but until that happens, I think your alarm is a bit of an overreaction.
- hexator 2y agoSimilar laws are being written elsewhere, Section 230 may not last the next few years. It's not just the UK.
- gotoeleven 2y agoWell the attacks on section 230 from the right are about removing censorship not adding censorship so I'm not sure section 230 is a good comparison.
- hexator 2y agoYou mean moderation. People are freaking out because they were banned from places for saying awful shit. Removing section 230 removes the right to moderation, which would kill the internet as we know it. It would become like cable internet. EFF summary on Section 230: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230 https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
- throwaway48476 2y agoModeration wouldn't disappear, it would just become controlled by the user.
- hexator 2y agoYes, it would. Any site offering moderation capabilities of any kind would be open to legal attack. That is enough to make it infeasible for any smaller site to have moderation, unless they're big tech of course (which is why they're OK with this)
- throwaway48476 2y agoThere's no reason moderation couldn't happen on the users machine.
- nradov 2y agoA lot of people who travel internationally occasionally transit through UK jurisdiction, such as a connection at LHR. This potentially places forum operators in personal legal jeopardy. Would the UK authorities really go after some random citizen of another country for this? Probably not, but the risk isn't zero.
- Yizahi 2y agoUSA has backdoor laws afaik. Sweden is targeting Signal to force them create a backdoor. And this is only from regular news, I'm not even reading infosec industry updates. All govts are targeting privacy tools and the clock is ticking for them. I'm only hoping that one day these fuckers will be targeted themselves via exploits they have forced on us.
- ss64 2y agoFirst they came for the British And I did not speak out Because I was not British...