FOSTA BILL PASSES... https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/21/sena ... cking-bill
FOSTA Would Be a Disaster for Online Communities...
Really, I'm responsible for every post on the forum? Even the spammers?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/f ... ommunities
Section 230 can be credited with creating today's Internet. Congress made the deliberate choice to protect online free speech and innovation, while providing discrete tools to go after culpable platforms. Section 230 provided the legal buffer entrepreneurs needed to experiment with new ways to connect people online and is just as critical for today's startups as it was for today's popular platforms when they launched.
FOSTA would destroy the careful policy balance struck in Section 230. By opening platforms to increased criminal and civil liability at both the federal and state levels for user-generated content, the bill would incentivize those platforms to over-censor their users. Since it would be difficult if not impossible for platforms, both large and small, to review every post individually for sex trafficking content (or to definitively know whether a piece of online content reflects a sex trafficking situation in the offline world), platforms would have little choice but to adopt overly restrictive content moderation practices-silencing legitimate voices in the process.
Your comments please...
Mike...