Essentially it forces websites to serve as law enforcement.
That's never a good thing. Besides literally being a tenant of communism (having private businesses do the government's dirty work), it will also make it incredibly difficult for a new platform to start, or an existing, small platform to not be torn down.
It is not a social media company's job to prevent bad things from happening on their site. That is the job of law enforcement, who have to operate within the confines of the constitution. When they push these measures, they're literally doing it as a way to get around constitutional restrictions.
And, yes, sometimes there are crimes that cannot be prevented within the confines of the constitution. Those are the price we pay for freedom.
This bill is fucked.
Essentially it forces websites to serve as law enforcement.
That's never a good thing. Besides literally being a tenant of communism (having private businesses do the government's dirty work), it will also make it incredibly difficult for a new platform to start, or an existing, small platform to not be torn down.
It is not a social media company's job to prevent bad things from happening on their site. That is the job of law enforcement, who have to operate within the confines of the constitution. When they push these measures, they're literally doing it as a way to get around constitutional restrictions.
And, yes, sometimes there are crimes that cannot be prevented within the confines of the constitution. Those are the price we pay for freedom.