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Ethics of Proxy Servers?
Mav asks: "I was recently asked to host a website for free in return for a lot of advertising. After querying them about how they knew the site would produce traffic they stated the site was going to be running PHPProxy (an open source web proxy). The traffic was a result of him and his contacts (nearly one thousand of them) using the site to bypass his school's firewall in order to view their MySpace pages and get access to their MSN messengers. Given all the attention social networking sites have recently received and the various laws attempting to block or control access to them I feel guilty and unsure making this available. Are there legal implications that I need to worry about? Could I be held liable if one of the students got in trouble? Most importantly, what's the moral thing to do?"
> For example, the last 20 odd years have shown that a man who is not ethically or morally encumbered can become the richest person on Earth.
With that attitude you'll never be rich! Wealth has nothing to with morals, but attitude, and application. Money is just a tool to be used.
Why is it that the poor always complain about the rich not having morals?
Get off your ass and DO something about it, instead of whining about it, like learning about "The Power of Association" and hanging around with wealthy people. The universe has anything you could want in abundance; stop falling for the lie of "artificial scarcity."
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