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perhaps. where does the line get drawn though? if someone stumbles across an adult-oriented link in your url shortener, will the libyan government take this t
by noodle 16y ago
perhaps. where does the line get drawn though? if someone stumbles across an adult-oriented link in your url shortener, will the libyan government take this to be a violation? will they order you to police the links shortened? will they take down your domain? etc..
- tptacek 16y agoThe line gets drawn wherever they want to draw it. This country banned political parties 40 years ago. Why would you give them money?
- noodle 16y agoi wouldn't, but clearly people have. thats more my point -- if they're okay with doing this, they're probably going to be okay to pull arbitrary content.
- merrick 16y agoThere is definitely some risk, so mitigate it and buy the ly.com variant of a .ly domain to protect against this - much like ad.ly owns adly.com, embed.ly owns embedly.com. Watch what bit.ly does - likely nothing right now. If they get warning like vb.ly says they did, we will hear about it, and then every .ly owner has a problem.
- tptacek 16y agoOr, they leave Bitly alone because they're the best-known .ly domain, but fuck with everyone else. Because: they can.