On 02/10/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/2/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
But you can't legislate against misunderstanding or malice. What effective penalty can we apply? We can't even stop people editing if they really want to.
You are correct that there are some bad people that we can't stop. But everyone that causes us problems isn't a judgement proof 14 year old kid jumping coffee shops... The reality is that a nontrivial number of our problem causers are corporations which don't have the sort of immunity which makes the TOS irrelevant. It would be really nice that on the third time some foolish advertising company calls us up threatening to sue because we deleted their drivel that we can turn around and say "No, we're going to sue you..." :)
... hmm.
Hmm. I'm liking this idea.
...
(The liking I'm getting for it is that it's fatally clever. That's a bad sign. But hmmm.)
- d.