Usually this kind of phrasing is code for “we excluded sites that we knew or strongly suspected to be child porn sites”. It’s illegal in the US to knowingly do more or less anything that comes vaguely near to facilitating distribution of child porn, so someone publishing a map like this would probably want to redact any known sites of that kind. Most other content that might be illegal in some way is “less illegal” so to speak, e.g. courts have not adopted really broad theories of copyright infringement where just including pirate sites in an index would count as “contributory infringement”. So for almost any other kind of site you can usually just publish first and maybe redact later only if you get a DMCA takedown notice or other kind of legal order.
I haven’t viewed the map at all yet (still at $work) but it sounds like I’d like them to produce a version where the censored sites appear as censored items (perhaps a black box) rather than being missing.
I think knowing what percentage of the map is probably ‘worse than illegal’ would be valuable.
What sites does “United States law” require to be blocked?
How does that work, mechanically? Do they put names of sites into law, or does the law specify that there is a list outside of the law, or what?
Usually this kind of phrasing is code for “we excluded sites that we knew or strongly suspected to be child porn sites”. It’s illegal in the US to knowingly do more or less anything that comes vaguely near to facilitating distribution of child porn, so someone publishing a map like this would probably want to redact any known sites of that kind. Most other content that might be illegal in some way is “less illegal” so to speak, e.g. courts have not adopted really broad theories of copyright infringement where just including pirate sites in an index would count as “contributory infringement”. So for almost any other kind of site you can usually just publish first and maybe redact later only if you get a DMCA takedown notice or other kind of legal order.
ohhh, right.
I haven’t viewed the map at all yet (still at $work) but it sounds like I’d like them to produce a version where the censored sites appear as censored items (perhaps a black box) rather than being missing.
I think knowing what percentage of the map is probably ‘worse than illegal’ would be valuable.