Microsoft president endorses online child safety bill night before Big Tech hearing
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Microsoft announced that it is endorsing bipartisan legislation intended to hold Big Tech companies accountable for ensuring that teenagers and children are safe online. Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad
  • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The law’s defintion of harm is extremely broad. Charlie Jane Anders has a good discussion of this in The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse:

    “This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don’t even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people.”

    • Aatube@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      Hmm, I was under the impression that Attorneys General could already sue whomever they want, success rates aside. Is that not the case?

      • The Nexus of Privacy@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Technically yes but judges get annoyed if there’s absolutely no case, so they rarely do – and if they threaten when there’s no case, larger companies will look at it and say the threat’s not real.

        • Aatube@kbin.social
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          10 months ago

          Wouldn’t the same go for attempting to sue with this law on hosting LGBTQ content, which has no mention?