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

[Tom Chance]

--- Hook <address@hidden> wrote: > Peteris
Paikens wrote:
> > >   -illegal/legal to display on browser viewed by
> a citizen of
> > > this country.
> > The action of 'displaying on a browser' is done by
> the citizen, not GNE,
> and
> > GNE has neither the ability nor the need to
> control 1) legality of foobar
> in
> > a country and 2) the location of the viewer.
> >   If the viewer is prohibited by his/her law to
> view information about
> > foobar, then (s)he is breaking the law, and not
> GNE.
> 
> I'm not convinced that you're right legally, but I'm
> not a lawyer, are you?
> 
> The underlying issue with illegal content is a
> social one - material
> supporting pedophile views (to take one example)
> need not be illegal to have
> a bad effect on GNE. In the real world you can't
> divorce yourself from
> "guilt by association" in the mind of the general
> public. And you can't
> ignore the views and opinions of that public when
> GNE exists to provide them
> with a resource.

We won't have guilt as GNE, why should we be guilty
for hosting pro-paedophilia or pro-nazi articles? The
only thing I'm concerned about is that if we host
illegal material, and Peteris is right about GNE not
being accountable (in all countries, as diff countries
will have diff. laws on this I'm sure), that we
properly warn people of illegal content so we don't
get a lot of people in trouble. IF we did that, we'd
have to have a watertight way of finding articles that
could be illegal and putting a disclaimer on them. Or
putting a disclaimer on every article (just on the
site would be no good as people can link to a single
article).

Tom Chance

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"True security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated 
individual effort - Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

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