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Originally posted by dj_sniffy
joe,
Lee and I have stated many times, what our purpose and goals are. You said that google says they don't police webmasters.
we say we don't police webmasters.
Does google state anywhere that they won't do anything with the data, like hand it over to the FBI if they forced to do so?
no.
Can we say we won't give the data to the FBI.
Yes.
-dj
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Yes, I completely understand that anyone can be forced to hand over data they may have. That is completely different than what I am talking about.
Yes google can do all the things you say above, but they are not the ones here soliciting webmasters opinions about it.
I am just pointing out what I see as a potential for your software that I think many adult webmasters will also see.
A federal contract is a rather lucrative prospect and money seduces people.
The federal government could easily contract you for the purposes of hunting down what they deem to be obscene images.
Because of this possibility it puts you in a compromising situation.
Saying you will do something and legally stipulating it in a contract are two different things.
Scenario:
Breaking News 1: Sniffy wins the hearts and minds of every adult webmaster on the internet with it's fabulous goal of eliminating CP forever. By indexing and categorizing every adult website on the internet Sniffy has the ability to track down illegal CP everywhere it's posted taking a huge burden off of adult webmasters everywhere who found it impossible to manually track down these offensive sites.
Breaking News 2: Sniffy wins huge federal contract to help the Justice Department rid the internet of obscene images. Sniffy, a break through software used to combat CP on the internet now opens it's database to the federal goverment in the war on porn. With this lucrative contract and it's huge database of adult sites, sniffy will be able to categorize and identify obscene images making the federal prosecutions for obscenity a breeze.
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This may sound off the wall to you, but I don't think I am the only paranoid adult webmaster out there..or at least I hope I'm not.
I think you need to build in protection for adult webmasters against this ever happening before you will get full backing.