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I don't want GitHub regulating links, but I still want them to reserve this power. You have no idea how many links to child porn people start to publish when yo

• grumple 4y ago
  Totally. Just takes a tiny number of problem users to cause major problems. In this case maybe it could have been handled better by temporarily blocking that repo instead of the whole account, since it was clearly a legitimate dev doing work on a prominent repo.
• londons_explore 4y ago
  For a while I ran one of those 'online image resize' services. I kept debug logs for 7 days of user uploads (and so the users download link would be valid for the same time). It really amazed me what proportion was porn. Like a good 30% of uploads. How can so many people need their jpeg porn pictures upscaled?!?
• rubyist5eva 4y ago
  Banning and removing links to illegal content: fine Banning and removing links to content you personally find morally objectionable: not fine It's not that complicated.
  • tryauuum 4y ago
    Sounds good, yet real life is more complicated * many governments will call illegal whatever they want. Will you happily enforce governmental censorship? * even if government acts in good faith, there is no good definition of porn. At some point some person will have to look at a picture and *personally* categorize it as porn / not porn (I guess first point doesn't make sense, since it's not a question of preference, you have to comply to at least one government if you want your company to survive)
    • rubyist5eva 4y ago
      As yes the "it's hard so why even bother" argument, tired.