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As promised, here's the round-table discussion post that I said on Wednesday was coming. We have a long history at SoylentNews of listening and responding to our community; I genuinely hope that never changes. I also recognize that I may have ruffled some feathers in the last few weeks with original content postings so here's the best place to get this all out.
I am mindful of the community's support and goodwill; I don't want to squander any of it. Yes, there are times where my hand may be forced (e.g., DCMA takedowns). Still, I'm always a bit hesitant whenever I post on the main site for anything that isn't site update news or similar. I may be the de facto site leader, but I want my submissions to be treated like anyone else's — I want no favoritism. The editorial team does review my stories and signs off before they go live (unless it's an "emergency" situation such as the last time we blew up the site). However, as the saying goes, the buck stops with me.
SoylentNews accepts original content. I'm also aware that I've probably submitted the most original content so far (See "Previously", below for some examples). I'm grateful for the community's apparent acceptance of my submissions and the positive responses to them. What I don't know is if there is an undercurrent of displeasure with these. Maybe everyone thinks these are all fine. Then again, maybe somebody has an issue with them. Rather than assume anything, let's get it all out in the open.
What I want to cover in this round-table discussion is original content and having images in posts as well as topics such as yesterday's Live Show on Improving Your Security -- Wednesday June 3rd, 2020.
So, contributors and commenters to SoylentNews, get that Reply button hot and let me hear your feedback. As usual, either a member of staff or I will respond to your comments below,
73 de NCommander
Previously:
(2020-06-03) Live Show on Improving Your Security -- Wednesday June 3rd, 2020
(2020-05-24) Retrotech: The Novell NetWare Experience
(2020-05-14) Exploring Windows for Workgroups 3.11 - Early 90s Networking
(2020-05-10) Examining Windows 1.0 HELLO.C - 35 Years of Backwards Compatibility
(2020-05-15) Meta: Having a Chat about SoylentNews' Internet Relay Chat
(2018-10-25) My Time as an ICANN Fellow
(2017-10-09) soylentnews.org experiencing DNSSEC issues
(2017-04-20) Soylentnews.org is Moving to Gentoo...
(2017-04-17) SN Security Updates: CAA, LogJam, HTTP Method Disable, and 3DES
(2017-03-13) Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4)
(Score: 2, Interesting) by VLM on Monday June 08 2020, @08:51PM (3 children)
I'll see your "illegal images" and raise the stakes with "illegal numbers"
This rather large binary number was VERY illegal about 13 years ago. 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 I don't think anyone cares about that number anymore, but it was a big deal a long time ago.
Other examples of illegal numbers: Absolute power corrupts absolutely and its illegal in some backwards parts of the world to not bow down to claims about "the six million". Ironically given that one extremist group has absolute power over that topic, and everyone knows absolute power corrupts absolutely, the people most responsible for encouraging holocaust denial are the people who wrote those theoretically well-meaning yet despotic laws.
Another psuedo illegal number can be seen in statistics. Its borderline illegal in 2020 to notice the mathematical fact that 13% of the population commit 52% of the murders.
My point is the pix aren't a new issue, and theres lots of existing law and tech to handle illegal content that already applies to the site.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @05:05AM
It is called criminal stupidity, and it seems to have a non-zero transmission rate. Sorry you caught it, but treatment is available whenever you get desperate enough to be taken seriously.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday June 09 2020, @07:11AM (1 child)
I remember that number too!
However, my concern would be with something like child pornography or material which aids terrorists, where the laws in the US take a very unusual stance. It is has appeared on your server - even if subsequently removed - you can still be accused of distributing such material. We cannot even afford to have a lawyer go to court to plead our case so I suspect that, in US law at least, we would be guilty.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 10 2020, @12:02AM
Same thing applies to someone posting song lyrics or plenty of National Security stuff. We start down the road of censoring any time someone might take us to court and it'll quickly descend into absurdity, because you can take folks to court without the slightest bit of merit to your claim.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.