On Sunday 27 May 2001 18:59, Sam Joseph said: > Ian Clarke wrote: > > How exactly can one person transferring information to a willing > > recipient for that information, hurt anyone else? And I want a strict > > > > causal link (recall that the arguments against homosexuality, for > > example, often revoloved around the act of buggery "offending God", > > the > > > same is true of the Spanish Inquisition, and most other opressive > > acts). > > Think about the other example in my previous mail. If you send an image > of me being brutally raped to somebody who gets off on looking at that > kind of thing, then you are hurting me. Maybe you can say that I > shouldn't care, but you can't tell me that you are not hurting me. > > What happens to my right to not have those kinds of images of myself > shown to other people? > > Think about the situation where someone gets images of me without my > permission, and distributes them ...
We always knew Freenet would be used for generaly evil things, like child pornography. It's simply inevitable being that there are people around who create and consume that kind of information, and not making Freenet would not stop them. We simply hope that any such abuse of Freenet is far outweighed by the potential ammount of good it can bring. If you don't think the good in Freenet will outweigh the bad, don't use it (which you apparently have already done). -- Timm Murray . . . example of a mobious. This sentance is an example of a mobious. This sentance is an . . . _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat
