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Just dont put it live, main challenge to check if link doesn't go to porn or even something worse. Because YOU are responsible for content you are redirecting.

by tigras2 14y ago

eurleif 14y ago
>Because YOU are responsible for content you are redirecting. Are you?
- wrighty52 14y ago
  Absolutely not - there's no reason you can't implement black listing or whatever. I can guarantee that there are URL shorteners out there that redirect to porn.
- jusob 14y ago
  Your hosting provider will hold you responsible. If they keep getting abuse reports because spammers use you URL shortener in their e-mails. Hosting providers (including dedicated servers) do not want to be blacklisted by popular spam lists.
- dspillett 14y ago
  In some jurisdictions you have to fight hard to prove you are not if it comes to anything. That fight could be costly.
dspillett 14y ago
It isn't the porn content that is the problem. Not "mainstream" or "normal" porn anyway. If you end up being the conduit for something worse (everything thing from malware that just plays ads to people, through to malware with more damaging intent, up to the far more objectionable porn and other things that you might have trouble squaring with your conscience even if it isn't your fault (because you did everything you thought necessary to make sure that didn't happen). If you setup an anonymous redirector, don't just put it out there. You need to monitor it for some of the worst things it could be used for. If not for legal reasons, then because you don't want to make things easier for certain sorts of people to hide. (I'm not saying don't set one up, feel free if you think you can monitor it to your own satisfaction, just be careful with it, and at very least make sure it is very easy to report links to questionable content to you so you can nip them in the bud ASAP)

4 ms·

Just dont put it live, main challenge to check if link doesn't go to porn or even something worse. Because YOU are responsible for content you are redirecting.

by tigras2 14y ago

Just dont put it live, main challenge to check if link doesn't go to porn or even something worse. Because YOU are responsible for content you are redirecting.

eurleif 14y ago
>Because YOU are responsible for content you are redirecting. Are you?
- wrighty52 14y ago
  Absolutely not - there's no reason you can't implement black listing or whatever. I can guarantee that there are URL shorteners out there that redirect to porn.
- jusob 14y ago
  Your hosting provider will hold you responsible. If they keep getting abuse reports because spammers use you URL shortener in their e-mails. Hosting providers (including dedicated servers) do not want to be blacklisted by popular spam lists.
- dspillett 14y ago
  In some jurisdictions you have to fight hard to prove you are not if it comes to anything. That fight could be costly.
dspillett 14y ago
It isn't the porn content that is the problem. Not "mainstream" or "normal" porn anyway. If you end up being the conduit for something worse (everything thing from malware that just plays ads to people, through to malware with more damaging intent, up to the far more objectionable porn and other things that you might have trouble squaring with your conscience even if it isn't your fault (because you did everything you thought necessary to make sure that didn't happen). If you setup an anonymous redirector, don't just put it out there. You need to monitor it for some of the worst things it could be used for. If not for legal reasons, then because you don't want to make things easier for certain sorts of people to hide. (I'm not saying don't set one up, feel free if you think you can monitor it to your own satisfaction, just be careful with it, and at very least make sure it is very easy to report links to questionable content to you so you can nip them in the bud ASAP)