> > Would it be possible to selectively contribute HD > > space to only those Freenet "spaces" that I am > > interested in? ><> > >No. While it might be technically possible to add, as soon as you start >going >down that road, you are tied to it forever. At least in the US (and probably >most of Europe), if you show the ability to censor any material, you >immediately become responsible for all the content you're transimitting. A >government could maintain a list of keyspaces that are required to be >"segregated". The result would probably be worse than how the Internet is >now.
You assume that a person doesn't want to have to censor. In the example, a person wants to filter out certain keys, and block them from propagating through their own node at least. You're right that showing the ability to censor some stuff means you could be responsible for blocking all stuff an authority wants you to. But why is this necessarily bad? I doubt that any of us "Freenet pioneers" want to have to filter from a government-approved list, but if Freenet were to become widely popular, there may be those would like to set up something like that. The gist of my post is just that you assumed that becoming responsible for filtering all content that passes through your node is *necessarily* something your reader doesn't want. Just that. You are otherwise very right. -todd _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
