Reddit: a necessary change in policy
It will be interesting to see how far this goes, it's likely we'll look back on this as reddit's turning point - there is some really awful content on that site.<p>However it's ironic that people rush to defend linking to cam-of-new-hollywood-blockbuster.torrent as "just a link", declaring it can't be illegal because it's just <i>pointing</i> to a file, it's not <i>hosting</i> it and only a fool lawyer or judge nestled warmly in the pocket of the RIAA/MPAA could misunderstand this.<p>But when that link goes to 13yearoldinabikini.jpg, a collection of 1s and 0s on someone else's server, suddenly this Link is a tool of evil and not only must it be removed, but the community celebrates the censorship and nominates <i>more</i> items for censorship.