Will you are over-simplifying "freedom of speech" to an extreme, but I won't go there at all.
My previous gig was for a financial document management organization. Our product allowed people to share documents around due-diligence processes. The people involved were often involved in securities trading of some kind. This meant that if they had "insider information" about publicly traded companies they would have to sequester themselves from any trading on that company. What we created was a flagging system. A user would say, I can only look at public information and the posters of information would flag their documents/content as either public or private (private = inside info). If it was private, not only the content was hidden from the public user, but so was its existence (as even the title name might lead to inside information). The gist of it is that people can flag themselves and we COULD create an auto-content-flagging system around specific tags or topics this way we aren't relying on human beings like we do for many topics and tags, but do the auto-tagging. Basically if the word patent is in a message it is flagged (the entire thread). How might this work? Well we use RSS feeds, right? Well, someone can subscribe to the patent-free RSS feed instead of to the full list. All auto-tagged content that is patent related would be removed from that feed. Just a suggestion. If you insist on using other methods than obviously you don't care enough or the situation doesn't bother you enough. The only thing I would ask to keep the garden even more walled is that we redesign our thread pages and discussion index pages so that other threads are not listed in the sidebar (I'm sure there are other web site design issues as well.) The reason the web site is so important is that for RSS folks its the only viable way to reply to a thread comment. Just some thoughts. -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=29902 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
