Kraktus wrote:
I realise, of course, there are problems with this.
* Use of effort that could be spent other places * Possible legal liability issues* Cries of "you're blocking child porn, why not also block warez/hate speech/freenet/political propoganda that I don't like" * Every single problem that comes along with trying to maintain a blacklist, including malicious submissions, manpower, filtering
And, the biggest problems to my mind:* If the blacklist is stored on some central server, creating a very nice system where people must report what they're browsing to a central authority * If the blacklist is stored in a downloadable form of any kind, effectively making a *list of child pornography sites*
The second might be avoidable through some clever hashing, but that simultaneously eliminates any sort of accountability or auditability, and as much as I like the Tor guys I don't want them to be able to knock entire sites off the Tor network.
(I'm also kind of entertained at the idea of a privacy group saying, effectively, "okay now that our behavior is no longer trackable please send us all the kiddieporn sites you know of thanks in advance".)
-Ben