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

[Ian Clarke]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:20:45PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
> 
> > This is pseudo-lawyering, which is dangerous.  As has been demonstrated
> > with Napster (who didn't filter anything), whether you currently filter
> > something or not, if it is on the WWW, you can be shut down.
> 
> This is U.S. legal precedent. Napster was shut down because it was deemed
> a technology specifically designed for copyright infringement without
> substantial non-infringing uses.
> Search engines, on the other hand, have historically been okay unless they
> censored some content, in which they were deemed to be taking
> responsibility for the non-filtered content.

Quite, but I am not talking about Freegle censoring anything, I am
merely talking about Freegle organising content so that people don't
need to be exposed to stuff which they are not interested in, or which
they may find offensive.

Ian.

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