Crowdfunding the creation of the next version of LFGSS

Not really a technical question - but what happens if somebody decides they want to set up a microcosm that, say, is focused on "destroy all the gays" or "burn the jews!" or "lolicon fanclub lolz" or whatever? Wouldn't that open you up to liability if the content is hosted on your servers?

That's just a question in general for all web sites that have user generated content.

The EU eCommerce directive very clearly states that the service offered would be considered a mere conduit and afford protections to the provider of the service. That is covered here: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32000L0031:En:HTML in point 43.

But let's be clear... whilst I will hide behind 'mere conduit' and have no awareness of the vast majority of content. If content exists on the system for which I have been made aware, and where that content is very clearly in breach of other laws, then of course I would have to remove such content.

The entire operation will be Europe based, and avoid US based entities. This grants full data protection rights to you and keeps me in a single legal domain.

As such, you could reasonably expect in your argument that "destroy all the gays" would be removed based on UK hate laws and inequality laws. And "burn the jews" would definitely breach French and German laws on anti-semitism as well as UK laws on hate.

The lolicon fanclub is fine from a legal perspective, but I suspect very few people would use it and thus that within the wider system it would be largely invisible. That is... if the list of microcosms were sorted by activity and a superfluous microcosm had none, it would be bottom of the list.

I think it's true that a natural order for the forums will emerge through usage.