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Since virtually (pun intended) day one, BoyChat has allowed "the sharing of files" by posting links to external sites containing videos and images. This was not without problems, sometimes very serious ones! Some enthusiastic BoyChatters posted links to their personal websites, often containing photos of themselves (along with their real-life identities!) and photos of their Young Friends. This led to the "antis" notifying LEO which led to the "disappearance" of a number of early posters (and the loss of a number of great websites!). Of course, those posters had been warned, but some people just don't listen to warnings that they should. So that was the end of some of the "low-lying fruit" here at BoyChat. Others posted links to Russian websites which contained "collections" of boy images, most perfectly legal (though featuring boy nudity) but some of boys in some sections of that website were engaged in sexual activity, something that COULD endanger BoyChat. So an end was put to that. But posting links to videos on YouTube videos or to images of boys found on the Internet continued unabated, and continues to this day. "Hosting files" vs "Linking to files" BoyChat does not host any image files, except for sig-pics. These images are "legal," even though some are of copyrighted images, which is questionable at best. There is absolutely no way to prevent posters from giving links to external sites and materials in their posts, including images. But something can, and is, done to prevent problems. All linked materials in posts are vetted by the Cogs, or, if the Cogs miss something, then PRFs are available to remove truly illegal materials. And were I to include a link to that Russian site mentioned above in this post, you can bet your bottom dollar that it would be cogged almost immediately! NOTE: BoyChat posters MUST (but don't always -- go figure!) use proxies to post here, and to download any materials that contain images or videos, in order to protect themselves from having their true IP addresses discovered, or from interacting with "honeypots" that LEO may post on BoyChat. You have presented a straw-man argument. You seem unfamiliar with the history and the traditions of BoyChat. You may believe that you have the best of intentions, but the fact is that you are suggesting draining much of the "life blood" out of BoyChat. We are all "wankers" and, being mostly male, we find visually stimulating images essential to the practice of our favorite pastime. If we further "sanitize" BoyChat, then very few posters will visit, and new posters will most likely leave very soon. Is that what you want? Do you want to gut BoyChat? Do you want BoyChat to wither away from lack of posters? In fact, by suggesting that posters visit FreeSpeechTube (which won't function if all JavaScript is disabled in the browser) you are encouraging posters to engage in potentially very risky behavior -- enabling JavaScript -- that COULD lead to them having serious legal problems! Is that, too, what you want? M. |