Chris Carey wrote: > Digg frontpaged a story on this Bill today I just had a thought... if a bill like this says filtering is required, how accurate must the filter be? Let's say I set up a web proxy that blocks URLs based on some hand crafted regular expressions. The accuracy might be low, yet my proxy technically qualifies as a censoring filter. Does it qualify for the requirements of the bill? Let's say I put some real effort into making a good filter on my own; at what point is the accuracy good enough that I am no longer liable when the filter lets bad stuff through?
We must not have a law that mandates filtering for the public unless we have a way to measure filter accuracy. Is anyone attempting to find a way to measure it? If we pass a bill before there is some reliable way to decide whether a filter is compliant, we'll just end up with a lot of wasteful litigation. Shane /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
