Posted on 03/05/2020 8:13:56 PM PST by bitt
Legislation announced on Thursday aimed at curbing the spread of online child sexual abuse imagery would take the extraordinary step of removing legal protections for tech companies that fail to police the illegal content. A separate, international initiative that was also announced takes a softer approach, getting the industry to voluntarily embrace standards for combating the material.
The two measures come as tech companies continue to detect an explosion of abusive content on their platforms, and amid complaints that neither Congress nor the companies have been aggressive enough in stopping its spread. An investigation last year by The New York Times found that many companies knew about the problem but failed to quash it, despite having the tools to do so, and that the federal government had not been adequately enforcing a previous law meant to stem the abuse.
Multiple U.S. agencies, together with the governments of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, released a set of voluntary guidelines on how platforms can stop the spread of online child sexual abuse material, commonly referred to as child pornography. Those recommendations were developed in conjunction with a half-dozen tech companies: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Roblox, Snap and Twitter.
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Born & unborn.
Nailed it, Bshaw.
This puts us clearly on a slippery slope to unfettered censorship.
That is not to lessen the horrible nature of this stuff, but to start down this road is to reaffirm the notion that ‘the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.’
The CIA is obsolete and should have been riegned in after the Soviet Empire Collapsed. It was granted operational leeway which only made sense in the face of preventing a nuclear first strike.
Preserving the dark web for the CIA is a nonstarter because preserving the CIA is quite properly a nonstarter.
“So you actually believe Google and Facebook, etc., respect your privacy...]
No I do not. But the idea of requiring those firms you mentioned to look at every image I store or send, under criminal penalty, seems like a road to no good end.
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