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E. Randy, you may well be angry about being called a crypto-authoritarian and I apologise for that.
But the fact remains that a TOS would require adjudication. Who, or what body, would do this? And who would have the final say? I suppose Tom Coates would be the authority, and it would be entirely fair that he had this kind of control over his own site. But there would still remain the problem of interpreting the TOS. What, for instance, is 'work-safe'? Some people may run into problems at work by viewing images with a high percentage of skin tone. What is 'offensive'? Some people may legitimately be able to claim that they find a picture representing God offensive. So, to resolve these problems, either you need a party to decide what is and isn't acceptable in every case, or you need an ever-expanding collection of rules and precedents, which comes down to the same thing -- an increasingly powerful authority, taking away the authorship of our own lives.
You may feel that this doesn't happen IRL, so why should it happen on Barbelith. The answer is, IRL, it nearly always does.
You could, I guess, have an elected or otherwise representative judiciary. But that's a whole 'nother question, not necessarily co-dependent on a TOS. |
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