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March of the Dinosaur
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:02:19 GMT in L_Bph.5024$Cn3.2935@trnddc02 J Fortuna wrote:
But why are _images_ of porn a problem for google groups, but textual porn is not -- google groups includes textual porn newsgroups, such as alt.sex.stories.moderated for example. And why is google groups to be free of porn images, when users can encounter them on the Web, and find porn images using google. The second part is maybe a bit more understandable, since I assume that groups.google archives are actually hosted by google, whereas the Web part of google is just searching through sites hosted by others. But the first part just doesn't make any sense to me, why sexually explicit images are more of a liability than sexually explicit text. That's a local jurisdiction issue, and a common carrier issue, and a legacy issue. 1) In the US, folks stopped going after obscene writings in favor of obscene pictures and devices and condoms before I was born. I think most of europe went that route even earlier. 2) In the annals of stupidity the precedents in the US were such that those that run a USENET server are not responsible for infringing or illegal content if it remains encoded for transfer. However, they are liable if they provide a service where that content is automatically decoded and provided to their customers. The exception was for groups where the group existed solely for infringing content (The groups reposting ALS content being the ones I watched play out). In this case the owner of the content that was infringed went after major USENET providers through civil court and generally settled for deletion of the infringing newsgroups. 3) google groups is legacy of dejanews. dejanews harkens from a time when USENET had a better ratio of bytes devoted to discussion vs. bytes devoted to binaries because of bandwidth limitations. NSFnet had just upgraded its backbone from T1 to T3 (~1.5M to ~45M), and there were still arguments of commercial traffic being carried part the way on public backbones. -- Chris Dukes elfick willg: you can't use dell to beat people, it wouldn't stand up to the strain... much like attacking a tank with a wiffle bat |
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