Re: [freenet-devl] freegle.com: major overhaul

[Ian Clarke]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:33:06PM +0200, Stefan Reich wrote:
> Ian wrote:
> >You may want an option to filter out keys containing "porn", "sex", "fuck"
> and
> >other such-stuff, and to provide a warning that other material may cause
> >offense, and that key-names are not nescessarily representitive of the
> actual
> >contents.
> 
> Hearing you say that that surprises me, Ian... I thought you were radically
> anti-censorship?

You misunderstand, helping people to find the information they are looking for
(and not find information they are not looking for) isn't censorship.
Censorship is when you prevent them from finding information that they might
want.

> But I have to admit I'm somewhat annoyed at the amount of porn (even child
> porn, though thankfully no hardcore stuff) in the Freegle DB too. I haven't
> decided what to do about it yet...

Provide *an option* to filter stuff out based on keywords, but don't force
any filtering, that would be censorship.

Ian.

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