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On 22 Aug 2004, at 07:33, Sven Hoffmann wrote:
i think we have a large problem with the starting points/bookmarks that are used on standard installations.
We strive to judge the front-page bookmarks on one criteria and one criteria alone: How effectively do they allow people to find the information they want. The index pages that best achieve this are the ones to which we link.
We stray from this objective and rational decision process at our peril. If we add new and subjective criteria intended to shield users from "unpalatable" content, then we have placed ourselves squarely on a slippery slope that could ultimately make us responsible for what people can find through the gateway links we provide. We will have thrown away our status as a content agnostic software provider, and placed ourselves in the position of endorsing some content, that which we link to on the gateway page, while rejecting other content, that which we don't.
It is for this reason that your email is misdirected. The people whom you must persuade are the operators of the most effective index sites on Freenet. Much as I might personally prefer that these sites avoided linking to certain types of material, it is not for us to exclude them from the index page on that basis.
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