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Re: thin line to tread

said by deepblackmag See Profile :

What kind of evidence. We should take a step back and look at some of these famous examples, such as the 4chan football screwup. The government has no business regulating the internet, a private interconnected 'series of tubes' as they celarly have zero understanding of how it works and who is responsible for what. Their judgement is so far from correct i wouldnt trust them to scoop up dead animals on the highway system, let alone try to regulate the most complex heavily traveled private traffic system on the planet.
I'm not looking for them to regulate the internet. It's obvious beyond any type of control as far as content. However just because they can't regulate it doesn't mean that everything becomes illegal.

My point I was trying to make is that I think people already have a duty to some degree to report to authorities, even if they have some form of a common carrier status, when they discover something that might be illegal. If an ISP found a collection of kiddie porn on their servers, report it to the authorities. If they found a website on their servers talking about another 9/11, report it to the authorites. I just don't think that there needs to be additional sets of laws that make ISPs have to go out and actively seek and prevent any types of issues, but if they do encounter one, do something about it.
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