The proposals make sense, but are opposed by Canada and Mexico, due to the perceived impacts it would have on the competitive advantages of Facebook and Google, among others. The proper approach to the problem of internet sex trafficking is to punish those involved, including the ‘conduits’ such as Google and Facebook, to discourage that activity and to encourage ‘hosts / conduits’ to actively monitor their arenas for such illegal activity, and to immediately squash it.
Of course, Free Speech is the typical fall back defense for the Internet of Things Industrial Complex to use when restricting the content hosted by websites is proposed. But common sense, legally accepted restrictions on free speech also apply to the internet; i.e. there is no protection of free speech that initiates or promotes harmful actions, such as crying out ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater or ‘sex’ or ‘drugs’ on a foreign hosted website outside the reach of other nations’ legal systems.
The proposals make sense, but are opposed by Canada and Mexico, due to the perceived impacts it would have on the competitive advantages of Facebook and Google, among others. The proper approach to the problem of internet sex trafficking is to punish those involved, including the ‘conduits’ such as Google and Facebook, to discourage that activity and to encourage ‘hosts / conduits’ to actively monitor their arenas for such illegal activity, and to immediately squash it.
Of course, Free Speech is the typical fall back defense for the Internet of Things Industrial Complex to use when restricting the content hosted by websites is proposed. But common sense, legally accepted restrictions on free speech also apply to the internet; i.e. there is no protection of free speech that initiates or promotes harmful actions, such as crying out ‘fire!’ in a crowded theater or ‘sex’ or ‘drugs’ on a foreign hosted website outside the reach of other nations’ legal systems.
Facebook and Google are notoriously liberal and need to be reigned in big time.