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“It is very hard to make text illegal” - literally any kind of illegal content can be encoded as text trivially.
by alasdair_ 8y ago
“It is very hard to make text illegal” - literally any kind of illegal content can be encoded as text trivially.
- stordoff 8y agoIt's also not true - it may be in the US, but for instance in the UK: It is an offence to "the person views, or otherwise accesses, by means of the internet a document or record containing information of that kind [likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism]." It may protect the site, but it doesn't protect users. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/58 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/section/58