[Bug-gne]Illegal content

[Christopher Mahan]

We should respect the laws of countries, but only in that country. If 
article xyz111 is physically only hosted in the United States, and is legal 
in the United States, and a notice is placed to viewers in Algeria saying 
that article xyz111 was banned by the Algerian Government, then if the 
viewer does in fact view the article, I don't think the Algerian police is 
going to be able to do anything about it, except bother the people in 
Algeria who downloaded the article.

Likewise, if an article is posted in Denmark, stored in servers within the 
soverein territory of Denmark, is legal in Denmark, and has a BIG HUGE 
notice that the article has been banned in the United States (maybe 
pro-communist) then the FBI or whoever would only be able to go after the 
people who downloaded the data.

At least that's how I understand it.

On the other hand, Algeria might just ban all traffic from GNE servers. Some 
coutries might do that, but then that's not our problem.

And it's not like we're making hand-grenades.

I mean, walk into any old library and you can find fiction that deal with 
child pornography. There may not be any pictures, but I guarantee the text 
will be descriptive enough.

I believe that concept is called Freedom of Speech.


Chris

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