Age verification won't help much at these companies that encourage grooming.
You can't make a horse drink water. They'll just do it by forum and let groomers open new forums when one gets put into adult-only mode.
Section 230 is the problem. It should at least be like the DMCA where if they receive a report of content that violates their own content policy they have to take it down immediately for review and if they put it back they're legally liable for it.
They should also be responsible for patterns of behavior. LBRY for instance if you get an adult content strike they put all your content as adult-only. If Discord doesn't do something similar they should be legally liable; if somebody was grooming and they let them open a new public forum or post in a non-adult one then Discord should be held at least contributorily responsible.
That sounds a lot better, we really just need to be able to go 'you allowed this to happen, now you get less privileges'
If a company can just govern itself effectively, they should be left alone only having to pay the required taxes (we're not getting rid of them anytime soon), as I said before, no one is complaining about Steam.
Age verification won't help much at these companies that encourage grooming.
You can't make a horse drink water. They'll just do it by forum and let groomers open new forums when one gets put into adult-only mode.
Section 230 is the problem. It should at least be like the DMCA where if they receive a report of content that violates their own content policy they have to take it down immediately for review and if they put it back they're legally liable for it.
They should also be responsible for patterns of behavior. LBRY for instance if you get an adult content strike they put all your content as adult-only. If Discord doesn't do something similar they should be legally liable; if somebody was grooming and they let them open a new public forum or post in a non-adult one then Discord should be held at least contributorily responsible.
That sounds a lot better, we really just need to be able to go 'you allowed this to happen, now you get less privileges'
If a company can just govern itself effectively, they should be left alone only having to pay the required taxes (we're not getting rid of them anytime soon), as I said before, no one is complaining about Steam.