> That would be fine with me, although I don't see how your "safe harbour > status" would not be lost by doing this.
Categorizing content is not the same as filtering. Historically search engines have only gotten in trouble if they 1) filtered content or 2) had a special category for specifically illicit content. For instance, some search engines have been hassled for allowing users to search specifically for MP3s. However, search engines have generally not be hassled for not blocking searches with for the keyword "MP3". So while you can have a directory view that splits keys into directories and you end up with all the keys starting with "illicit/" in the "illicit" folder, you're probably okay. However, if you have an option for "Search For Illicit Material" then that's probably a bad plan. Anyway, I'm not trying to make a moral arguement about censorship and such. You're totally free to do whatever you want with your site. It's yours, so have at it. I'm just trying to give some advice based on my view of U.S. legal precedent regarding search engines and illicit content so that nobody gets unduly hassled. But take it or leave it because I'm not a lawyer. _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Wed Apr 18 08:18:07 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA15000 for <danello at danky.com>; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 01:05:43 -0400 Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A3A58144; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: devl at freenetproject.org Received: from azrael.dyn.cheapnet.net (cs2745-29.austin.rr.com [24.27.45.29]) by hawk.freenetproject.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 56E9757FE6 for <devl at freenetproject.org>; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28855 invoked by uid 1000); 18 Apr 2001 04:42:44 -0000 To: devl at freenetproject.org Subject: Re: [freenet-devl] freegle.com: major overhaul References: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0104172318190.29026-100000 at moe.cc.utexas.edu> From: Steven Hazel <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: Brandon's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 23:20:45 -0500 (CDT)" Message-ID: <87y9sy7r98.fsf at azrael.dyn.cheapnet.net>
