Why are social networks themselves not responsible for the content that people post on it?

Question

Social media

A law like "10 years for hentai and the like" - why are social networks themselves not responsible for the fact that people post such pictures or videos on their sites?
How is it legal?
If, let's say. I have a social network, or something else, and someone will post what they want there - like in VKontakte - they can show me - is your site your service distributing something obscene? How do you contact the law about this? Does he have something written somewhere in the agreement during registration, or does it need to be given to someone so that your service is not touched? Or is there some kind of law that allows social networks to admit that people can post anything and then they can be held accountable, and not the site itself?

Answer 1

For the same reason that a taxi driver is not responsible for the contents of his passengers' pockets.

Answer 2

Vkontakte has age restrictions on groups. And then there are ToS and other interesting things. But who will read all this?

Answer 3

It is not specified in the legislation.
The social network provides services to an unlimited circle of people (users are not employees of the social network), relations are regulated by the Civil Code and a public agreement with the social network. Most often, it says that your page is the property of the social network, while you personally are responsible for the information that you post there, the owner of the social network has the right to delete this information in case of violation of the internal rules specified in the contract, or by a court decision in the territory presence (or in pre-trial, if provided for by laws, hi rkn).

Answer 4

In ordinary life, everything happens like this, you get a paper with a collision, you tell Yana I'm all a user and throw off his IP, address, phone number, full name and all the information you know about him, well, you write his account is set and everything is remote

Answer 5

why social networks themselves are not responsible for the fact that people post such pictures or videos on their sites?

Because otherwise it is called "pre-moderation", when the material is checked BEFORE posting. But Vkontakte does not have enough money to hire admins to pre-moderate all the content that is there.

Answer 6

Part 4 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the law on information, information technologies and information protection, well, there are also a number of smaller laws and by-laws + law enforcement (judicial, administrative) practice ... study for health ...
from the latest interesting practice, look at the case Yandex and Gazprom-Media, according to the same scheme, VKontakte may be pressed in the future ... not for storage, but for search - issuing links to illegal content ... although Yandex is not yet successful, but it fights back ...