It's not a panic response. (I haven't seen your post yet BTW.)
You want LJ to read through every post and every community looking for potentially illegal material as opposed to invigorating smut? Who's going to do it? You? And your friends? And their friends? I doubt it. How many milion lines of text are there on LJ? How many people does LJ currently emply who ahev both time and qualifications to do this work? remeber hardly any of them (if any) will be trained in the fine disticntions of obscenity law in multiple US states (let's leave out the law of the UK, Iraq and Russia for now..)
So what's the alternative assuming you the reader don't want to bear that cost (ie pay an awful lot)? Without resources for 100s of monitoring editors their only sensible line is to remove or delete material headed with what are likely pointers to illegal material. Ot swallow unlimited risk of being sued or prosecuted - something no sensible business would do.
Also do you really *want* LJ reading your stuff to assess if it's smut or pedo? Wouldn't you rather they just took a "bright line" approach?
Incidentally this is nothing new - Google does this using automated filters (is your Google on safe Searxch? most people's are as it's the default) and so do many website hosts and ISPs.
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Date: 2007-05-30 06:17 pm (UTC)You want LJ to read through every post and every community looking for potentially illegal material as opposed to invigorating smut? Who's going to do it? You? And your friends? And their friends? I doubt it. How many milion lines of text are there on LJ? How many people does LJ currently emply who ahev both time and qualifications to do this work? remeber hardly any of them (if any) will be trained in the fine disticntions of obscenity law in multiple US states (let's leave out the law of the UK, Iraq and Russia for now..)
So what's the alternative assuming you the reader don't want to bear that cost (ie pay an awful lot)? Without resources for 100s of monitoring editors their only sensible line is to remove or delete material headed with what are likely pointers to illegal material. Ot swallow unlimited risk of being sued or prosecuted - something no sensible business would do.
Also do you really *want* LJ reading your stuff to assess if it's smut or pedo? Wouldn't you rather they just took a "bright line" approach?
Incidentally this is nothing new - Google does this using automated filters (is your Google on safe Searxch? most people's are as it's the default) and so do many website hosts and ISPs.