oh man if you think the solution to imperilled trans people is a legal framework, buddy,,
I Have Some News For You About The Function Of Law
certain kinds of tech people find clear terms and rules and specifications attractive, and are drawn to legal frameworks for solving social problems because they think that legal frameworks can provide that structure and “clearly delineate what is or is not allowed”
and i don’t know what to tell you, other than, they can’t
if you want to clearly delineate what is or isn’t allowed you can do that easily just by saying “i would like you to do this / i would not like you to do that”
what legal frameworks give certain classes of individual is the potential for enforcement. but as far as content licensing goes, the potential for enforcement by a marginalized internet user is basically zero. this advantage is a myth
what legal frameworks give the programmer is the illusion that they can automate systems based on a string matching of a content license and still have those systems be ethical. this is also a myth. a computer can never be held accountable. you need a human making those decisions regardless of what the license does or does not say
any system with ethical or privacy implications needs manual human supervision and intervention. it cannot be automated. if this makes these systems infeasible, then they are infeasible. not inevitable
