Internet drug saleshave skyrocketedin recent years, allowing powerful narcotics to be peddled to American teenagers and adolescents.
Its a trend thats led to an epidemic ofoverdosesand left countless young people dead.
Both groups expressed concern over the impact the proposed law could have on internet privacy.
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Back in the day, buying drugs used to be a slog.
First, you had to know a guytypically not a super pleasant orwell-groomed one.
It was an entire ordeal, filled with paranoia and inconvenience.
But these days, buying drugs is a lot simpler.
In fact, to hear federal officialstell it, buying narcotics is currently aboutas easyas DoorDashing a burrito.
Teenagers will then be delivered fatally powerful drugs, which end upkilling them.
That part isnt made clear by the legislation.
Meanwhile, companies that failed to report evidence of drug offenses could face steep fines.
But Cooper Davis would explicitly create an exception to those protections, he said.
This principle works pretty well in the real world but gets decidedly murky when it comes to the web.
This bill would do more than whittle away Americans online rights.
Companies looking for a roadmap would likely end up turning to another federal policy known as2258A.
NCMEC, in turn, forwards the reports it receives to relevant law enforcement agencies for further investigation.
However, when it comes to online drug activity, things are decidedly more complicated.
Online drug transactions are largely carried out under the cover of coded language, using oblique terms and signals.
How are companies supposed to sift through all that without driving themselves (and their users) insane?
Content moderation of this sort, at scale, is really, really, really hard, McKinney agreed.
As good as AI is, context matters.
A word should not be enough to trigger extra surveillance.
Overall, critics feel the law could be a disaster for internet privacy.
Obviously the government doesnt like being constrained.
They want to be able to see everything.
Venzke, meanwhile, said he and his colleagues were holding their breath until the vote goes through.
Gizmodo reached out to the offices of Senator Marshall for comment but did not hear back.
We will update this story if we do.
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