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Re: [Bug-gne]External Servers and Illegal/Extreme Content


From: Tom Chance
Subject: Re: [Bug-gne]External Servers and Illegal/Extreme Content
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 09:55:04 -0800 (PST)

> > It's the "knowingly" bit that worries me.
> Presumably we know/have seen
> > the content, that's why we're choosing the server
> carefully,
> 
> No, you misunderstand what I'm suggesting, the GNEP
> won't 
> decide which material goes on which server, it'll
> only decide which 
> material it will accept.
> 
>  If an article is rejected by GNEP the author is
> able to submit it to 
> one of the alternative servers, which are willing to
> carry 
> controversial material.
> 
> That way at the worst only the server which accepts
> it can be held 
> responsible.


That's a bit of an odd, and very messy way of doing
it. It implies not only that GNE will be the central
server and any mirrors or "contraversial" mirrors will
be little offshoot projects. How, for starters, would
you propose you link to all of this material?
Expecting a new index for each server, a new web site,
or anything similar is ridiculous and will make
navigating GNE as painfully laborious as the WWW.
In your way GNE also still has responsibility for the
article as much as if the server holding it was a GNE
server, in my view anyway. We have to have a central
submission form, that will then put references into a
central index, so that the resource remains coherent
and without broken links and missing materials. It
will also then be much easier to mirror from server to
server. Controversial material can be put on another
designated server that is reliable and can be indexed
as being there, not on the GNE server that is being
looked on. And by implementing a classification system
similar to Mike Warren's, we can easily provide a
legal site, and a mirror which includes potentially
illegal content.

If we criticise China for blocking the freedom to
write against their government, aren't we being
hypocritical not allowing people to write against our
accepted history, etc?

Tom Chance

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