Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
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Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#2Oh crap -- not again!
Holding the line against censorship is very, very nerve-wracking.
Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#3I swear, you can predict the quality of a law as the inverse of how good the name sounds.
If this law were going to limit sex trafficking, it would have a name like "Revisions to the Prosecution of Certain Interstate Crimes". But no, it's got a big, gaudy name that poisons the well on any opposition whatsoever. So, predictably, it will either endanger innocents or restrict basic rights. It's like god damn clockwork.
Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#4Oh crap -- not again! Holding the line against censorship is very, very nerve-wracking.
I've got a certain painful sympathy for Lovecraft characters these days. There's nothing quite like the feeling of having to win every battle ad infinitum, against an opponent whose every gain will be permanent.
Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#5Oh crap -- not again! Holding the line against censorship is very, very nerve-wracking.
I've got a certain painful sympathy for Lovecraft characters these days. There's nothing quite like the feeling of having to win every battle ad infinitum, against an opponent whose every gain will be permanent.
Fortunately there are no immortals here.
Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#6> The two choices facing platforms would seem to be to put extremely restrictive measures in place compromising their users’ free speech and privacy, or to do nothing at all.
So where is the problem again? "Do nothing at all" sounds good to me. Be the dumb pipe or host you're supposed to be.
Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've got a certain painful sympathy for Lovecraft characters these days. There's nothing quite like the feeling of having to win every battle ad infinitum, against an opponent whose every gain will be permanent.
Fortunately there are no immortals here.
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Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#8Oh crap -- not again! Holding the line against censorship is very, very nerve-wracking.
What politician is going to vote against cracking down on sex trafficing though?
Once they named this bill the way they did, this was a lost cause. We're well-fucked here, I imagine.
Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#9Re: Internet Censorship Bill Could Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation
#10Oh crap -- not again! Holding the line against censorship is very, very nerve-wracking.
What politician is going to vote against cracking down on sex trafficing though? Once they named this bill the way they did, this was a lost cause. We're well-fucked here, I imagine.
> What politician is going to vote against cracking down on sex trafficing though?
A good one that doesn't vote on a law based on it's always-misleading title.