Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it

Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by Judgmentality on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:12PM (#18877611)

I didn't say it was moral or what's best for the world, I just meant it's an easily defined goal. And with regards to the other commenter asking about jurisdiction, you change it based on the IP address (obviously this can be spoofed).

I am not claiming that there is a simple solution for how to handle censorship that is optimal for the benefit of mankind. I am saying the way companies should approach implementing it is relatively straight-forward.

Otherwise you'll have endless debates about what is and is not moral, where nobody will ever agree and product managers and engineers and everybody else will constantly be in tension and nobody will be happy.

Censor as little as necessary based on laws and let people make their own decisions for what they want to view.

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Re:Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it sugge... by dvdkon on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:36AM (#18881458)

I agree with the sentiment, but the problem is that it's actually quite hard to distinguish "legal" and "illegal". Judges do that for a living and see how long a single case takes them. It's simply not feasible for an automated system to do it properly.

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