I am surprised my esteemed colleagues haven't jumped on
> Immunity to content liability must go, too.
This would be quite a hurdle to quite a few sites if it applied across the board. To begin with, this site. Reddit. Etc.
> Immunity to content liability must go, too.
This would be quite a hurdle to quite a few sites if it applied across the board. To begin with, this site. Reddit. Etc.
I think that the real answer is to mandate open protocols. The government has a real role in determining weights & measures used in trade (which it's rather shamefully ignored: I should be able to order a small, medium or large coffee or pizza anywhere in the country and get the exact same size); that same role could be legitimately used to describe exactly the right (though not the sole) formats which must be supported by a service.
E.g., the State could mandate that Facebook provide users a well-supported way to publish to or read from RSS, or for Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, Amazon Prime & iTunes to share music.
There is a danger there, in that it's not exactly well-defined 'share music' means (are those services even comparable? what about some future service with a revolutionary new model?), but I think that it should be doable.