It gets into the weeds fast. I thought I was all for free speech, then the Christchurch terrorist shared his live stream of him killing people.
The legal system is too slow and private companies have a dubious record of what they police. What’s a good model to follow?
> Then, crack the whip on domestic telcos, ISPs and hosters. Whoever hosts anything connected with more than 200 users has to have a 24/7/365 abuse hotline that has the manpower and authority to investigate abuse claims and remediate them (i.e. disconnect whoever is causing the problem until this party has remediated the issue on their end) in less than four hours.
I think this makes small-scale hosting unaffordable. It would probably cost circa $150k to staff that hotline, which is then the lower bound on labor cost for the provider. That implies a $750/yr bill to each of those 200 customers before technical costs.
>Then, crack the whip on manufacturers of smart devices. Mandate that every Thing sold with an internet connectivity get at least security updates for a decade, and that the full source code for everything in it including signing keys for firmware be submitted to Library of Congress or whatever archive and released when the manufacturer either goes bust or declares end of life for that Thing.
This is much needed as to not have a bunch of e-wast. Of course pretty sure this will cut into next year's new model's profit. Do we really this new model of phone/computer every few year?
This is easy for the phone calls if the politicians cared: Every provider knows who the previous hop was for a call. You report every abuse and your previous hop has two options. 1. They're covered by local law and can point at their previous hop or direct customer. 2. They're abroad and it's their responsibility to deal with their previous hop.
Nobody wants to get disconnected from being and to call the US. This would solve the spam/scam calls issue pretty much immediately.
For the internet it would be harder to enforce.
I always figured a better idea was to put a token tax on voice/VOIP telephony. A few cents per minute or even per connected call that crosses the border.
This makes the unsophisticated scams that rely on spray-and-pray and low-take-rate uneconomical, AND provides friction against offshoring legitimate customer-service.
Yeah, you can argue people will encrypt their way around being easily taxable, but it's the "tax evasion/AML" concept-- you create something easy to prove and to prosecute, even if it would be harder to hunt down the underlying scam.
If a killer wanted to make a scene, they could just do it in the real world right in front of people instead of on Facebook.
These days, with everyone having a camera strapped to their hands or face, that might not work.
> The legal system is too slow and private companies have a dubious record of what they police. What’s a good model to follow?
Get the legal system in shape. Yeet everyone above pension age out of public office so that we finally may get people into power who grew up with smartphones instead of old farts who let their secretaries print out e-mails and type audio recordings into letters. Then, do the same for police leadership and DAs, yeet the brawns and get the brains. You can't prosecute IT crimes if your average police officer doesn't even know what a proxy or a money mule scam is or if the DA is too goddamn lazy to file a subpoena because the damage is less than 950 dollars.
Then, crack the whip on domestic telcos, ISPs and hosters. Whoever hosts anything connected with more than 200 users has to have a 24/7/365 abuse hotline that has the manpower and authority to investigate abuse claims and remediate them (i.e. disconnect whoever is causing the problem until this party has remediated the issue on their end) in less than four hours.
Then, crack the whip on manufacturers of smart devices. Mandate that every Thing sold with an internet connectivity get at least security updates for a decade, and that the full source code for everything in it including signing keys for firmware be submitted to Library of Congress or whatever archive and released when the manufacturer either goes bust or declares end of life for that Thing.
And then, get the State Department into shape. Countries from which malicious traffic operates or where money from scams gets exfiltrated to get half a year to get their shit in order and be good netizens, or they get cut off from Western nations. No SWIFT, no Internet, no SS7.
The Internet at its fundamental core (cough BGP) runs on the assumptions of a high-trust society, which has led to issues all over the place as the world has shifted towards a no-trust-at-all lawless society and as it is impossible to uproot probably trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure, drastic action needs to be taken to restore the Internet to a high-trust place again.