Re: [syndication] When RSS Gets Naughty...

[Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk>]

On 15 Aug 2001 burton@relativity.yi.org wrote:

> Dan Brickley <daniel.brickley@bristol.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Morbus Iff wrote:
> >
> > >  From http://writetheweb.com/read.php?item=114
> > >
> > >  >So far, so good. But Steve's next idea was somewhat more radical: why not
> > >  >let people create personal weblogs about pornography? This thought led to
> > >  >the creation of Sexblogs, a Manila-based weblog site. (We need hardly warn
> > >  >you that clicking on that link will load pornographic material in your
> > >  >browser - but consider yourself warned anyway.)
> > >
> > > And there's an RSS feed! Oh joy!
> > >
> > > http://www.sexblogs.com/xml/rss.xml
> >
> > See also...	http://www.glandscape.com/xxxvids.asp
> > 		-> http://www.glandscape.com/cgi-bin/prnxml.rss
> >
> > ...if smutty RSS feeds bake your cookie.
> <snip>
>
> Someone write to congress!  People are using RSS and content syndication for
> porn!!!

Write and tell them to fund such work (eg. [1],[2]) to the fullest extend
permissable under the law: only through accurately describing such
objectionable materials can the clean-thinking populace be protected :)

danbri


[1]  http://www.glandscape.com/pr0n/
     (Project Pr0n is looking for US funders...)

[2]  http://dmoz.org/rdf.html
     http://dmoz.org/Adult/
     http://dmoz.org/license.html
     Not widely known, but Netscape distribute megabytes of porn metadata
     in RDF through the Open Directory project. Invaluable when building
     tools for filtering out smut.

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RDF = PICS-NG = Pornography Description Framework, it's time the truth be told...