> But that is far from the truth

Just install a Russian locale on your computer to prevent malicious programs even starting and get on with your day because it's the truth.

Snowden is a free man in 2026 despite the United States of America very much wanting to put him in jail.

Taking things down doesn't help much unless the platform has something in place to make it hard to recreate them.

>they could do the hard job of combining leads and working with appropriate agencies to maybe find and prevent these things over time

At least in the U.S., everyone will cry government overreach and no one will fund it. In other countries, they should probably just ban U.S. platforms unless they're reachable and actually resolve these type of problems.

Won't that require laws that allow the said agency to compel LinkedIn or whatever tech company to actually pay attention and take action? Like laws compelling tech companies to unlock the bootloader once they stop supporting a device.

I wonder why such common sense laws don't exist and who is preventing them from being introduced and passed despite wide public support in general?

Sounds like socializing the harms instead of requiring these companies to bear the burden themselves. Could still be a valid approach but I'm afraid it will make them take less responsibility, not more.

whilst reducing crime is an honorable objective, as we all know, increasing the wealth of tech billionaires must take priority.

Won't that just create another channel for social engineering to delete a victim's account?