> Among the regulations the new bill seeks to enact are: ... Prohibiting video downloads from these platforms, to be in place within three months of enactment of the legislation
I feel like this part (which is what a lot of sex workers are balking at, as that's their bread and butter) is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Internet works--where I would claim accessing anything is "downloading" it--which, to actually implement, puts even more companies in a position of being pro- DRM and locked-down computing efforts :(. The wording from the bill: "a covered platform may not permit the download to a retrievable data file of any pornographic image from the platform".
Like, going down this path puts us in the position of "well, browsers can't just have a feature that lets you download anything you see, as they have to play along with mechanisms in place to help prevent people downloading files from porn websites!" being a reasonable position (in addition to the existing pressure from copyright groups and the such, which at least tech companies often have less sympathy for; and really, with the exception of Section 1201, often has "less teeth" and doesn't force the hand much of platforms and devices... this is more direct).
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 18.5 ms ] threadI feel like this part (which is what a lot of sex workers are balking at, as that's their bread and butter) is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the Internet works--where I would claim accessing anything is "downloading" it--which, to actually implement, puts even more companies in a position of being pro- DRM and locked-down computing efforts :(. The wording from the bill: "a covered platform may not permit the download to a retrievable data file of any pornographic image from the platform".
Like, going down this path puts us in the position of "well, browsers can't just have a feature that lets you download anything you see, as they have to play along with mechanisms in place to help prevent people downloading files from porn websites!" being a reasonable position (in addition to the existing pressure from copyright groups and the such, which at least tech companies often have less sympathy for; and really, with the exception of Section 1201, often has "less teeth" and doesn't force the hand much of platforms and devices... this is more direct).