Le 2025-01-08 15:35, Peter Pentchev a écrit :
Hm, I would be really, really surprised if there was even one "large
platform" that did not shift the responsibility to the user by having
them sign a terms of service document upon account registration.
They don't make you sign anything, and most of the time they don't even
make you explicitly accept or read anything. A good example is there:
https://pastebin.com/
(trigger warning: ads and loads of tracking junk and cookie consent
pop-in-your-face featuring dark patterns)
Once you've cleared the cookie stuff, that's it. You can write and paste
and share whatever, nobody will ask for your real name or a government
ID or make you print a form and sign it and scan it and upload it or
review the content of what you publicly share before you share it.
Note that this is not a new service: according to Wikipedia it has been
online since 2002. It's still online. It is fairly certain that it has
seen some of the worst kind of abuse since its inception, yet it's still
there and almost as free to use as when it was created (actually the
worst impediment is probably the mandatory cookie consent stuff).
Now if you pay attention to details, somewhere at the bottom of the
page, in small letters with reduced contrast next to “cookie policy” you
will find a “terms of service” link that brings you to a wall of
legalese prose where you can read ”Please read this Terms of Service
agreement carefully before accessing or using this Website” among other
silly absurdities that are so typical of the legalese of common-law
jurisdictions. It probably says somewhere that by using the service you
consent to these terms, and that you can't use the service to post
illegal or abusive content.
Back to the bottom of the page, you will notice that there are not just
one but three different links that will offer you three different ways
to report abuse: “dmca”, “report abuse” and “contact”.
Then if you click on a random public paste on the right, in the banner
above the shared contents, next to “print” you will find a “report”
button that brings you to a pre-filled report form.
That's all what's needed, and still probably way more than the strict
minimum necessary to CYA. And the contact forms don't even make it
really easy to report abuse as they feature captchas.
Also, I'm not sure that some issues can really be cleared; see below.
Here I'm not sure the perceived issues are that much of an issue. We
would have no Internet today if network and system operators tried to
reach that level of safety back in the eighties and nineties.
Cheers,
--
Julien Plissonneau Duquène
