On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:17:23PM +1030, Antony Blakey wrote: > Now, if the law of the hosting country allowed child porn for some > bizarre reason, then I'd have to expose my inner Kantian, and would be > making a different argument.
Well this was my point. I am guessing that we would come to a fairly quick consensus that we didn't want to link to child abuse images, even if this was bizarrely legal within the context of your suggestion. The point being that there are an infinite number of potential edge cases where judging something on legality alone would not be satisfactory. Imagine a disgruntled DBA who decides that he's going to setup CouchDB Sucks and from that site he's doing to create one new website per day, each one using a subdomain and listing a new reason why CouchDB does, in fact, suck. Because he's using CouchDB for the website he justifies the addition of one new link per day to the links page. Each link goes to a different subdomain of CouchDB Sucks. How do we handle this? It's clear something is wrong here. Technically he meets our linking policy, but he's abusing our trust. The possibilities are endless. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
