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The proposal is for a publicly funded index as base-level infrastructure. Filtering out spam, pornography, and other undesirable or illegal content would be do
by WaltPurvis 7y ago
The proposal is for a publicly funded index as base-level infrastructure.
Filtering out spam, pornography, and other undesirable or illegal content would be done at the service level, i.e., but companies/organizations building user-facing search applications on top of the index.
- skybrian 7y agoAnd suppose someone builds a service specifically to find illegal content? There will be pressure to block them and also remove stuff from the index. So you need a policy on who gets blocked and that's just as political.
- mschuster91 7y ago> Filtering out spam, pornography, and other undesirable or illegal content would be done at the service level, No, it has to be done before, at the infrastructure level. There are jurisdictions (Germany, for one!) where even the storage or publication of links can be illegal under certain circumstances. With the new GDPR law and whatever is coming up in the US, the situation is even more unclear as it is trivial to embed protected personal data into URLs.