Re: [Bug-gne]the problem of illegal content vs. freedom

[Mike Warren]

Tom Chance <address@hidden> writes:

> I see your point about mirroring. Some people would
> say "Oh simply keep contentious articles in countries
> where they aren't illegal!".

We might try putting such articles into Freenet (or use Freenet as a
``backup'' repository)...

> We'd then have to hope we always had a mirror on which articles
> could be stored. We'd also have to ask author's to tell us if they
> think their article could be illegal in some places, so we could
> store it with care and avoid any future problems.

This is quite similar to Freenet; we could alternatively use their
code and change it to suit our backend needs. Using Freenet's methods
would mean that mirror sites wouldn't (and couldn't) know what is
stored on them, so it would be impossible for a German mirror to be
shut down for publishing ``illegal'' content...

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