18.06.2012 - 15:58 [ techdirt ]

Washington State Tries To Criminalize Service Providers For User Behavior; Internet Archive Sues

I‘m sure the folks behind this law had the best of intentions. Sex trafficking of underage persons is a very real and horrific problem (even if the numbers bandied about are massively exaggerated). But the real solution is to go after the actual perpetrators, and that means working with service providers to help track them down — not criminalizing the service providers in a way that kills off lots of legitimate activity as well.