Dnia 12.02.2024 o godz. 12:15:08 Sebastian Nielsen via mailop pisze: > > However, if an end user SENDS something via the proxy, let's say a forum > post, the proxy usually bears the responsibility for the content, which we > have seen in numerous court cases where a proxy have been used to hide the > origin of illegal content, where the proxy owner have knowlingly been a > forwarder of such a content (eg, been negligent and refusing to for > example block forum posts from his proxy).
Which is fundamentally wrong. An "anonymous" proxy, configured specifically to hide the original poster is a totally different thing and you should not mix it in here. Such a kind of proxy is *actively modifying* the communication, so of course its owner bears responsibility - it was his deliberate decision to modify the communication. Like in the case your described, when a HUMAN user MANUALLY forwards mail and modifies the headers or encapsulates mail in another mail - it was his deliberate decision to do so, and he, not the original sender, bears responsibility for the forwarded (MODIFIED) mail. Let's talk about regular proxy that doesn't hide the originating IP. The same applies for regular automatic (not manual) mail forwarding. A proxy job is by definition to pass ANY traffic, NOT to block anything. Pass it in as unchanged form as possible from the purely technical point of view. Of course, the proxy can deny access altogether to the user who is not authorized to use the proxy. But if user is allowed, the proxy should NOT mess with traffic. Like the telecom operator job is to pass any traffic and not to block anything. If telecom operators block anything (and we know they do), even if it's required by law, that only means that this law is nonsense and against logical reasoning. Nobody who is an intermediate link in a communication should mess with the contents of the communication. Only the end receiver has a *logical* (let's put legal aside) right to reject/block/filter anything. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
