Re: Removing traces of Nabble

Posted by artgallery42 on May 13, 2009; 6:13pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Easily-accessible-illegal-content-tp2870207p2885645.html

Thanks for your comments Graham and Vames.

I guess we could spend forever discussing semantics.

With regard to google, look at it as a question of perspective.

Google Groups aside, most people regard Google as a search engine. You type in a term, it searches the Internet and brings up a list of websites. It's filtered by default and is considered as a tool to surf the net.

People find nabble in a search engine, it's a website that allows you to create a forum in it's webspace. All nabble forums are contained in the same website, irrespective of where or how they're embedded. Use the search facility and it finds forums on the nabble website, many of which contain illegal content. - Guilty by association? Maybe?

Google groups isn't the issue for me, I'm not signed up with them, I'm signed up with nabble. Google have their own policing, Nabble appears to have very little, and no response yet from the owners. In any case, the majority of dubious Google Groups are keyword targetting. You visit a group and your presented with, in most cases, lists of unrelated spam links. The forum I highlighted in my OP (although a lot of the content has now been removed) was actually a discussion between members.

So what can I do?

Carry on using nabble and say it's not my problem?
Cancel my nabble account, go elsewhere and say it's not my problem?

Neither of these options sit easily with me, it's a major concern to say the least.


PS, I've noticed that the forum in question has been removed, thank you, whoever, for doing that. It's not my intention to go on some sort of personal crusade and highlight every forum with dubious/illegal publicly viewable content, but a simple search will, without a doubt, reveal many more.