Incredible that they think this will even slow anything at all. Some of these laws you can see a trade-off between safety and freedom, which you can decide where to position yourself. But in this one I really have a hard time seeing what even gets harder to do for criminals.
If I'm sharing nasty stuff through one of these platforms and I can send text, I can send a link. In any platform "that doesn't allow links" you see people sharing them anyway through normal text, even if they have to create some new conventions. And you can also just use different platforms anyway, so where is the deterrent?
This is just annoying based on people legislating for technologies they don't understand.
If I'm sharing nasty stuff through one of these platforms and I can send text, I can send a link. In any platform "that doesn't allow links" you see people sharing them anyway through normal text, even if they have to create some new conventions. And you can also just use different platforms anyway, so where is the deterrent?
This is just annoying based on people legislating for technologies they don't understand.