Keith Old wrote:
Of course, there are materials that are illegal to view in one country that are perfectly legal in another. It is probably illegal to view neutral accounts of the Tianenmen Square protests in 1989. It is not in most other countries and would obviously considered as verifiable material.
However, I understand that there is an Optional Protocol to the International Convention on the Rights of the Child see ( http://www.law-ref.org/CHILDPROTOCOL2/index.html ).
Perhaps it should be considered a banning offence to provide links to materials that contravene this protocol or to upload images that contravene it. As it is an international agreement, it might be considered as more of an international standard. Such materials should certainly not be considered to be verifiable and editors should be encouraged to remove it on sight.
This suggestion is over the top. Who makes the decision about whether some site is illegal? Who verifies that? It's frightening to think that some Big Brother is sitting in a tower somewhere making that kind of decision that would affect us all.
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