"In September 2024, the House of Representatives passed a bill that requires consumers to be notified if they have interacted with a user on a dating app who has been banned for defrauding consumers of money or personal financial information. But the bill stopped short of addressing the issue of sexual assault on the apps, and it died in the Senate."
Freedom to ban a user is freedom of association, but a legal obligation to amplify unsubstantiated accusations subverts due process. This might be unpopular, but I like living in a society with due process.
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
-John Adams, founding father and father of OG abolitionist John Quincy Adams
Freedom to ban a user is freedom of association, but a legal obligation to amplify unsubstantiated accusations subverts due process. This might be unpopular, but I like living in a society with due process.
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.
But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
-John Adams, founding father and father of OG abolitionist John Quincy Adams