Ask HN: Concerned Citizen
Why don't all the really good hackers get together and remove all child pornography from the web. Who better to do good for this country?
...oh wait
but seriously, the idea is noble, but the fact is that child pornography is already widely controlled. if you actually want to obtain it, you have to be on the inside of the situation, just like drugs. you can't buy heroin at walmart. you have to know who to go to in order to buy it and jump through some serious flaming hoops to get it. we can't police things on thumb drives and encrypted emails/connections. and if we could, would we even want to? it would be hugely big brother that would be removing the rights of the law-abiding many to prosecute the few. (which i guess isn't that foreign under the current administration)
but thats just my $0.02.
Why don't all the hackers get together and elect Obama?
Why don't all the hackers get together and stop terrorism?
This is fun!