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Think you are misunderstanding what I am saying.
Take Google for example. In Germany it doesn't matter what datacenter you use...if you do a search for neonazi you will get a filtered result for Germany totally outlaws references to nazism.
If you do a search for Nepal Hindus in China you will get filtered results no matter the datacenter... Sure surfing around via a proxy will by pass a lot of the geo filtering, but the best effort is there.
Now you take a surfer typing milf, bukakee, oral sex, blowjob, cum, fuck, etc in the US. If a website does not have a certain tag on their site they will not even show in the search results if the search is made from a pc in the US. The tags are there...the search engines have the ability in place. Why not use it. The search engines are already being hounded by the US govt about their search histories on the excuse of CP. We are being hounded by the US govt under the guise of CP, and children being able to search and find porn.
Most adults are too lazy or plain ignorant to filter what their children surf. At least the major Search Engines and us webmasters could then show we were doing our best efforts to keep kids away from adult materials.
No matter what the current US govt believes the US cannot dictate what a webmaster in Belarus, turkey, brazil, or for that matter Canada does.
But they can pass laws in the US affecting what an American webmaster can do. If we are not making an effort that SHOWS, (such as volentary filtering and labelling), they will find a way to make it mandatory under their terms.
I see it as a win/win situation for both the US webmaster and the major SE's if we take the first step.
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