I don't understand at all how technical details of the internet should be guideline for the limits that the law imposes on online platforms.
If there is a social norm and already laws that prohibit say, pornography being available to children, on every medium, then internet platforms shouldn't get a free pass simply because they're internet platforms. (opinions on the particular issue aside for a minute).
I'm a little tired of somehow having to accept that internet giants can do what they want and deserve a special role in society because they're internet companies, and every critic is brushed off with personal attacks.
>Only 26% of members had an email address.
That is to say 74% didn't have an email address
Also
>of senators who voted for his legislation, 52% had no Internet connection.
It's not objectionable to propose that they hadn't bothered to use the thing they were trying to regulate out of existence.
The decentralized, global, many to many nature of the internet is why its just not possible to regulate like TV.
Whose norms? Just like you don't care for my idea of norms France doesn't care for the United States who doesn't care for Zimbabwes.
Even if we could agree how do you review content created by billions? Sisyphean doesn't begin to describe it.
In short if you don't want your kids to see boobies please install boobie blocking software on your own computers rather than expecting billions of people in 100 odd nations to conform to your households standards.
Internet platforms cannot exist if they're liable for individual things that users put on their platforms.
As a society we’ve decided that some standards are important enough to be codified into law. It doesn’t matter to us if you’re violating it by engraving cuneiform into clay tablets or using electrons in a distributed platform. Everyone must follow the same laws, no special pass for you because you get to make money from the violation.
If a scientist can't guarantee that their scientific experiments comply with the safety standards we demand of them they can't do them.
Not to mention of course that internet platforms do exist that handle individual content reliably, they're just smaller and don't collect the economic rents that Facebook does.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cox [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Cox_(Facebook)
