Re: [Haskell-cafe] black Wikipedia

On 18 Jan 2012, at 19:32, John Meacham wrote:

Not to mention ebay, craigslist, etc.. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/10082416208/monster-cable-claims-e...

when there is no burden of proof for someone to take down a site then things get very complicated.

for instance this package could be enough to get all of hackage taken down since astrolabe decided they own timezone data[1].

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-olson-0.1.2

There is the Beastie Boys case, where the judge decided copyright protects what is creatively unique. Hans

in fact, SOPA and PIPA would make hackage pretty impossible to legally host. Unless the hackage maintainers want to do exhaustive patent and copyright searches on all uploaded code before they allow it to be posted.

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111006/11532316235/astrolabe-claims-it-ho...

John

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 13:11, Henning Thielemann wrote:

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On Wed, 18 Jan 2012, Andrew Butterfield wrote:

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Just add ?banner=none to the url if you really have to read the page

Maybe the intention was to demonstrate that censorship (in this case self-censorship) is mostly a problem for average users but not for advanced users.

There isn't going to be a disable-javascript or ?banner hack when anyone anywhere can force a website to be redirected to some DOJ page without providing any proof. (Yes, really.)

-- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms

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