🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <BxF1uy.Bzs@news.iastate.edu> john@iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:

> How about this amazingly radical concept...
> 
>   If something is illegal for your site, you delete it from your site.

How about another amazingly radical concept...

Most sites (or at least those not part of .edu) are around for reasons other
than to just support news, and their admins perform news administration as
a peripheral activity.  To monitor every single image that goes through a
site with a full alt feed is a *very* significant resource in time, one in
which most companies will not be able to cost justify.  I doubt that all
administrators will be dying to spend all their waking non-billable hours 
monitoring this stuff just to make sure they did not miss some illegal posting.

Lets get real about this - either we are able to police ourselves, or several
(many?) sites will join the ranks of those banning the erotic picture groups
from their sites.  Only this time, those choosing to censor the groups will
be doing so due to the legal implications of carrying the traffic, not 
necessarily because of how they feel toward the actual images posted.  There
will not be any facist admins to blame this time around - only those foolish
posters that could not control what they posted.

Regards,

Tim Kehres