Policing of "inappropriate" content is mainly political. Policing of unlawful content isn't: at the end of the day, inappropriate content causes some manager somewhere to get hissy; unlawful content means the Police take six of your PCs away for examination (and we're lucky we didn't lose a fileserver or proxy box too).
Managers tend to obsess over inappropriate content because it annoys them: it's like their staff reading Heat under their noses. I couldn't give a howling damn - that's a management issue. Keep the staff busy and they won't have time to waste.
It's the unlawful stuff that I'm picking around with. Given that I can't get a trusted blacklist, what tools are available to get early awareness of dodgy action? In particular: Google searches for "preteen felch" - for example. And, of course, are those tools smart enough or will it suck up someone's entire workday? There's a lot of crossover between dodgy and legitimate wording and people really really don't like being accused of being paedophiles and white supremacists on spec.
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Date: 2006-04-04 02:21 pm (UTC)Managers tend to obsess over inappropriate content because it annoys them: it's like their staff reading Heat under their noses. I couldn't give a howling damn - that's a management issue. Keep the staff busy and they won't have time to waste.
It's the unlawful stuff that I'm picking around with. Given that I can't get a trusted blacklist, what tools are available to get early awareness of dodgy action? In particular: Google searches for "preteen felch" - for example. And, of course, are those tools smart enough or will it suck up someone's entire workday? There's a lot of crossover between dodgy and legitimate wording and people really really don't like being accused of being paedophiles and white supremacists on spec.
Especially not managers ;)