Re: Child Porn (was: Re: [freenet-chat] Thoughts about Freenet)

[David McNab]

> Maybe. Personally, however much legitimate data there is I still won't > want to run a Freenet node for fear of being party to distributing child > porn Better stop using credit cards, then, because you're supporting companies that facilitate child porn transactions. Visa, Amex, Mastercard and Diners are all used in sale and purchase of child porn. Better stop using airlines and postal services, because these industries are known traffickers of child porn. Sam, haven't you heard of 'common carriers'? David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "freenet-chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 3:26 PM Subject: Child Porn (was: Re: [freenet-chat] Thoughts about Freenet) > Owen wrote: > > > On 19 Apr 2001 12:09:20 +0900, Sam Joseph wrote: > > > > So my question to you David, is do we actually need the ability to > > > _anonymously_ distribute images to achieve any of the things you are > > > > talking about? Or would _anonymous_ distribution of text do just as > > > > well? > > > > > > I reiterate: > > > 1) UU-encode means there will always be binary data. See usenet > > Yeah, I heard you the first time. You don't think that UU-encoded > documents could be filtered? Maybe you don't want to do that, fair > enough, but don't tell me it can't be done without giving it some > thought. English text has statisical properties not found in UU-encoded > text. It could be filtered. > > > 2) If there is enough legitimate, useful data, people won't think > > kiddie porn is a problem > > Maybe. Personally, however much legitimate data there is I still won't > want to run a Freenet node for fear of being party to distributing child > porn, and I think there are a lot of people like me, maybe not on this > mailing list, but they are out there, and busily not using Freenet nodes > for just this reason. > > Anyway, I was asking a _hypothetical_ question to David, which still > stands. Do we need anonymous distribution of images to help heal child > abusers? > > Seems to me that I could set up my own Freenet node that just filtered > out any incoming data that didn't the statistical properties of known > natural languages, and I would feel fairly secure that I wasn't helping > distribute child porn. You disagree? Explain it to me in detail. > > CHEERS> SAM > > > _______________________________________________ > Chat mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat > _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/chat