I agree. If harassment laws haven’t been updated to better reflect the digital age, then folks should be demanding their lawmakers to do their job and change the law. And, you know, enforce it. That is the purpose of the Executive branch of government (in the US, at least).
The current flavor of exerting social pressure on companies to, in effect, enforce their version of what the law should be, won’t end well for anyone.
What’s righteous today will become the evil of tomorrow. Political winds shift all the time.
We shouldn’t box ourselves into a corner where corporations enforce the rule of the people. There’s a threshold that once reached will be very hard to undo. I certainly don’t want to live in that version of the future.
We should all be working to fix the broken system we’ve got, not throw it away and start from scratch.
Oh, the harassment laws are perfectly up to date. The problem is that we then have to rely on...
1. that being the case literally everywhere; otherwise, it's just a matter of moving the harassment sources to a friendly jurisdiction
2. the police to enforce them, although the police are known to often be complicit in similar conduct (harassment of minorities)
3. this enforcement to actually cause positive changes in people's behavior, which, given the current state of the US "criminal justice" system, won't happen
The legal system is ill-equipped to handle this not because of a lack of laws, but because the legal system is full of humans who often don't treat the safety of vulnerable people as a priority.
The current flavor of exerting social pressure on companies to, in effect, enforce their version of what the law should be, won’t end well for anyone.
What’s righteous today will become the evil of tomorrow. Political winds shift all the time.
We shouldn’t box ourselves into a corner where corporations enforce the rule of the people. There’s a threshold that once reached will be very hard to undo. I certainly don’t want to live in that version of the future.
We should all be working to fix the broken system we’ve got, not throw it away and start from scratch.