Re: Microsoft comes right out with it

Microsoft comes right out with it (Score: 2, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-21 20:48 (#1TN)

Here's a good article about Microsoft's service agreement: http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/19/cloud-restrictions-porn-xxx/

None is more restrictive than Microsoft's SkyDrive . Check out the first two parts of the Windows Live code of conduct that governs SkyDrive:

You will not upload, post, transmit, transfer, distribute, or facilitate distribution of any content (including text, images, sound, video, data, information or software) or otherwise use the service in a way that:
"¢ depicts nudity of any sort, including full or partial human nudity, or nudity in nonhuman forms such as cartoons, fantasy art or manga.
"¢ incites, advocates, or expresses pornography, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity, hatred, bigotry, racism, or gratuitous violence.

The code of conduct is much larger than this, but already this list has some serious issues. From the looks of it, you can't store nude or partially nude drawings (sorry, Titanic fans and fine art lovers ) or your favorite legally purchased adult porn movie. Because Bugs Bunny wears no clothes, I guess he's off limits, too.

Re: Microsoft comes right out with it (Score: 4, Funny)

by genx@pipedot.org on 2014-05-21 23:20 (#1TW)

Because Bugs Bunny wears no clothes, I guess he's off limits, too.

A relative of mine often posts on Flickr pictures of a squirrel that visits his garden daily. On one single image, amongst those many pictures, the squirrel presented his back to the camera. That picture was censored!

Either somewhere, there is someone who, every-day, looks for photos of squirrel butts and reports them, or someone has programmed a squirrel butt detector... I am not sure which hypothesis is the most disturbing.

Re: Microsoft comes right out with it (Score: 3, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-22 11:14 (#1V6)

I know there are people out there working for law enforcement agencies whose job it is to pore over tons and tons of child abuse images attempting to discern trends, identify sources or victims, and so on. Most of them don't last long, since it's so horrifically upsetting to anyone who cares about children. So, can we assume someone out there has the job of squirrel butt censor? That would be like the worst intership ever.

An interesting study would be for some journalist to open up different cloud backup accounts and post different things to see what gets flagged and what doesn't.

It still reinforces my idea that I'm going to buy a second NAS and back stuff up between the two NASes instead of backing up my NAS to some cloud provider. It seems interesting and useful from a technical point of view, but given the current legal and political environment, it hardly seems worth it.

Time	Reason	Points	Voter
2014-05-22 11:29	Insightful	+1	genx@pipedot.org
2014-05-22 12:34	Interesting	+1	nightsky30@pipedot.org

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