SESTA May Encourage the Adoption of Broken Automated Filtering Technologies

I agree automated filtering technologies are broken, but I disagree with the author that wider use of flawed automated filtering technologies will necessarily be the result of SESTA.

If platforms are now responsible for illegal conduct over their networks unless they adequately moderate content, automated filters will not be adequate. The current status quo is that these platforms tend to have automated filtering, and have decided that's "good enough". They know that illegal activity takes place on their networks, but since they cannot be held legally responsible for it, there's no reason to improve.

Either companies will need to employ more humans in the moderation chain or automated filtering will need to get substantially better. I don't see a particular downside to this: Making these companies liable and responsible for content on their platforms will incentivize them to improve how they operate their platforms.