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This guy?

Ever been sent a link or picture or maybe a video in a message which you wish you could un-see?

No reasonable person would ever take "A link is not in of itself libel" to mean "I can shield myself from a lawsuit just by putting the libelous text inside tags."

I dunno. I think there are times where the text itself may not be libellous, but, the link makes it so:

"Always excellent to see someone with such an open mind" :)

The legal system needs to recognise that the Internet's just another communication medium and the real test is whether someone's been defamed as a result of someone else typing things.

Only if you do it right. :)

Interesting, but the fatal flaw is there's a possiblity of tasting this.

You've never heard of goatse? You must be new here.

It used to be hosted here, but fortunately has since been removed and replaced by a fairly informative site with some (SFW) descriptions of some of the more popular shock sites and a warning about the hazards of clicking on links from untrusted sources.

I got http://slashdot.org.goatse.cx/, counts?

opera should be ashamed of themselves

Link please!

ok, here you go

Malda

To understand the torus topology, take a look at the proof presented at http://goatse.cx/ :D

You don't know what I have seen in my life!

I assume you're talking about this.

I think the internet should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have Goatse.cx, TubGirl and other shock sites?

Sure, you may not want to see that stuff. You not looking doesn't mean I don't want to look (not an endorsement of goatse). So what happens when an arbitrary third party comes and tells us both that we shouldn't see something, because it knows best what is harmful to you? All good and well if you blindly trust this authority. But what if you feel you can handle it, make a better decision, or don't believe the authority? Well, my friend, you are royally fucked.

As much as I'm all for freedom of speech, sometimes I think people take it a little too far by bringing such graphic images into the public square. Anti-abortionist protestors will frequently hold up graphic (bordering on pornographic) posters showing aborted fetii. This is done in full view of children.

I think the internet should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have Goatse.cx, TubGirl and other shock sites?

As much as I am for freedom speech...

You don't have a right to not be offended. If you don't like it, you are free to ignore it (don't feed the troll principle). If you simply can't ignore it, then fell free to express your opposing opinion. If you disagree with their expression, but do concur with their opinion, then express yourself in your own acceptable way alongside them.

This holds for speech that actually tries to convey content. I suppose one could incorporate shock-shit to make a point, which then makes its use in that context protected.

This veers off-topic for a little bit, but gets back on later (I promise)

However, there are those who will argue that this freedom extends to goatse.cx, tubgirl, and child porn. Fair enough. If someone feels that the content of goatse, tubgirl, or child porn has some inherent value, then so be it if they want to go find it. However, this question isn't about the consumers of the information. Is the producer of tubgirl breaking a law? Probably is somewhere. Goatse? Same thing. The child porn? Let's look at that; this is all largely academic, so don't read too much into it.

An obviously sticky problem, really the pornographer is committing the crime when he engages in sexual activity with the kid. If he records it and sells it, that's secondary. Of course, the secondary effect is made illegal, per se in the attempt to remove demand for that which necessitates the forbidden act. So really, what is happening is the freedom of speech is being abridged here, in an attempt to prevent what is required to make this speech. Now, you're going to make the argument that murdering someone because you don't like their policy/politics/business/whatever is also illegal. Let me rebut this. Is regular porn illegal? No (well, it isn't in most places). So, neither the act of sex or the depiction of it is illegal. Is showing a video of a murder illegal? Not that I'm aware of. But murder itself is pretty much uninversally illegal. The act doesn't make the depiction illegal to begin with. But I digress. Child porn is a special case of think of the children. Look on the bright side, both the murderer (who admits it to make a point) and child pornographer to do their thing and leave all sorts of evidence to prosecute the actual illegal acts when they do get caught.

Now, wasn't that a delightfully off-topic section? Back to the topic.

Freedom isn't just about being able to express your opinion. It's really about being able to express your opinion, no matter how unpopular or offensive it is with the rest of the town square. You can do this in pretty much any way you want, as long as it doesn't infringe on anyone else's rights. The other side of the coin is that they're also free to not deal with you.

how much worse off would we be if we didn't have Goatse.cx, TubGirl and other shock sites?

I don't know, you tell me, because people like you keep linking them everywhere ;-)

As much as I'm all for freedom of speech, sometimes I think people take it a little too far by bringing such graphic images into the public square. Anti-abortionist protestors will frequently hold up graphic (bordering on pornographic) posters showing aborted fetii. This is done in full view of children.

I think the internet should be free, but seriously, how much worse off would we be if we didn't have Goatse.cx, TubGirl and other shock sites?

thankfully there are no memes that involve duping people into going to NSFW sites

Not heard of this one then?

is http://goatse.cx/

You forgot Mr. Goat

It's going to be hard to top that one. And... uh... my bottom hurts.

(that last one was a stretch I know)

http://www.goatse.cx/

It's not all roses here, but I continue to use Slashdot because you actually can get some decent discussions going here, and there's a lot of actually funny responses too.

I fully agree with you, and recommend this link which is relevant only to older users..

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Remember, when you think of jonesday.com, think goatse.cx.

What a bunch of shysters, eh. Fuckin' dumb ass turtles, wasting everyone's tax dollars, time and shit.

I insist that you stop this defamation immediately! jonesday.com is a fine, upstanding company that offers excellent service.

I'd rather see cookie recipes than the shit-eating porn or the guide to caring for your new nigger or hidden links to goatse guy.

MELT-IN-YOUR-MOUTH CHOCOLATE SHIT COOKIES

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup light brown sugar (firmly packed)
1 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
2 cups semi-sweet nigger shit

Preheat oven to 375ÂF.
Stir together flour, soda and salt in a small bowl. In another bowl and using an electric mixer, combine butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Add vanilla. Beat your new nigger and make him mix in eggs one at a time. Blend in flour mixture. Separate the nigger shit into tiny granules and stir it in.

Spread your new nigger's anus wide and cram the mixture into your nigger's intestinal cavity. Now make him/her pucker up and push, dropping blobs by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet, about 2 in. apart. Bake 8 - 10 minutes, until golden. Cool on cookie sheet for about 1 minute, then transfer to racks.

You may give your new nigger a cookie as a reward or just let him/her lick the bowel clean.

Ever seen this?
 
It's my cute li'l rendition of you :)

Name's taken.

(Linked to the dead site to illustrate the fact that I'm kidding. Relax, mods.)

So much for proofreading uranus.

There, fixed that for you.

Tell it you are feeling lucky and it just might send you here .

You must be new around here.

Cheers!

In my time in the work place, messages signed "The Management" (even when there is only 2 managers) have always been present. It's never been a firing, more like "clean up in the kitchen area, we're not your mom. - The Management." I was always quick to point to my job description, which was countered by coy threats of re-evaluating my job description (with no follow up). "The Management" looms, even if only with good intent.

That said, no link on /. is ever safe to follow, duh. Or did you miss this part of Internet history?

Ireland use to be one of the good ones. Also, http://goatse.cx/.

You may legitimately disagree with my choice, but I have my reasons and I'm sure you have yours. Most Linuxes make great servers, so it's really choosing your favorite incarnation of "awesome."

Damnit! Stop doing that. Your job on Slashdot is to perpetuate the holy OS wars. If you start to lose an argument based in 'nuh uh, yeah huh' then immediately question the person's choice of vi verses emacs.

Never EVER admit that something may come down to personal preference unless you are willing to follow it up by blatantly trashing said person's personal preference by calling them 'dumb' or 'retarded'. Finally, if you are totally and completely losing the argument, link to final irrefutable proof: like this

Vote for McCain

These programs are Satan's rectum, poised to let loose over the web.

Is this what you're talking about?

So, you're saying that I go to a web page, click on some link, and the CSS or javascript rewrites it so that I'm actually redirected to some other link? That doesn't match the description in TFA -- the way it talks, all I have to do is visit a malicious website, and suddenly my browser is sending through clicks for anything they want me to click, and I don't have to do anything.

Why, I agree good sir! It's a good thing Jones Day didn't patent it first!

Goatse linked to FEAR!

Slashdot's trolls are better written than the admin's posts on other forums.

You are cordially invited to view the following website, known as goatse for your distinct viewing pleasure. Please enjoy yourself, monsieur.

This is my homepage by the way: http://goatse.cx/

I admit, I looked.

It's a picture of Bill O'Reilly for some reason.

I... think that's an improvement...?

http://goatse.cx/

And yea he said while the moaning wall enjoyed an

http://goatse.cx/