Me, I lean away from the uploading/saving because that's a massive storage sink. Someone else is welcome to do that, but it's not something I'd design into the system from the start, not if the focus is on massive organization of bookmarks. Actually storing the content of those bookmarks would be for a phase II, at the very most.
My other reason for leaning away from that is because of the legal issues. Not copyright, but criminal issues: the US has been less lenient in the past decade about porn -- especially child-porn -- and if the TOS is to be "you're an adult, behave and do whatever," then there would be an issue (eg tumblr) of what gets stored on the servers. That's getting into legal areas that are beyond my grade, and furthermore, cost money (to get the proper legal advice). It's a tarbaby, frankly. Again, if someone takes that road, that's their choice, but I just find myself leery. It's more important to me to allow people to bookmark whatever they damn well please, and if the loophole is that as long as the actual content isn't stored locally -- that it's okay to have a link but not the content -- then I'd rather take that loophole than follow diigo's path of just blocking/disallowing any/all porn.
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Date: 6 Oct 2011 01:46 am (UTC)My other reason for leaning away from that is because of the legal issues. Not copyright, but criminal issues: the US has been less lenient in the past decade about porn -- especially child-porn -- and if the TOS is to be "you're an adult, behave and do whatever," then there would be an issue (eg tumblr) of what gets stored on the servers. That's getting into legal areas that are beyond my grade, and furthermore, cost money (to get the proper legal advice). It's a tarbaby, frankly. Again, if someone takes that road, that's their choice, but I just find myself leery. It's more important to me to allow people to bookmark whatever they damn well please, and if the loophole is that as long as the actual content isn't stored locally -- that it's okay to have a link but not the content -- then I'd rather take that loophole than follow diigo's path of just blocking/disallowing any/all porn.