Re: Note - ISP Screwed Up - Can WRITE But Not SEE

186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:

On 1/24/25 4:33 AM, D wrote:
 

First of all, no one in power even knows what usenet is, so no one
will ever look.  Second, most of the nasty stuff can easily be
blocked or filtered.  Third, the responsibility of the post is the
posters and not yours (at least in my jurisdiction).  At _worst_
your responsibility is to remove the content from your servers, if
asked.  Otherwise, nothing to worry about.

 
  "Survival through obscurity" sometimes works - but sometimes
  doesn't.  Just takes ONE little witch-hunter looking for a
  promotion to expose a dreaded case of Unregulated Thoughts .......

Indeed, and the witch-hunter's are incentivised to go looking for those
to expose because that's their collateral they use to measure their
value among the other witch-hunters in their social group.

It's the very reason why HOA's are so awful in the US.  The busy-bodies
(i.e., the witch-hunter's who want to control everyone's lives) are the
only ones who are attracted to the job of "HOA board member", and once
they worm their way in, then things like "your trashcan, when stored,
must be no more than 4 inches and no less than two inches from the left
edge of your garage door" (a US HOA has rules almost this ludicrous,
and they actually hire "snitches" to do nothing more than drive around
the association property all day looking for any 'rules violations' to
cite people for).