delete -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ferguson Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The latest news from The Planet
It has nothing at all to do with freedom of speech. It has to do with whether a company wants to do business with the speaker. Also, nowhere in any sane person's mind does the right to freedom of speech extend to inciting violence. I hate the poorly thought out, uneducated snapback of "they have the right to say it; who are you to stop them?" Well, if I'm a hosting company, I'm the one who owns the servers and that's who I am to stop them. I might not want that on my machines or bandwidth. I might not want my business hurt by the negative attention and publicity. I might not want my customers calling up threatening to go elsewhere because I allow that type of thing to reside on my network. Now, to put this back on the topic of CF, does anyone have any real ideas on how best to go about building such an application, building a sort of indexing engine like this? We've all built search engines for sites we've done through database full-text indexing or Verity or whatever, but has anyone done a wide search application tasked with indexing whole networks of sites. Maybe it's something that's got to be done with something like the Google appliance or some such. Any thoughts, ideas...? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Lavender Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 10:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The latest news from The Planet Hmmmm, much agree "objectionable material" can be dangerous. Perhaps you should help the world out and make something happen. I am sure your view on freedom of speech will make the world much safer. jackal -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Ferguson Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The latest news from The Planet My idea though, is a simple application that a host could use to scan their own networks for objectionable material. Then hosts like The Planet couldn't say it's too difficult or too expensive to police the content on all of our customers' sites... --Ferg ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
