Innovations and improvations of web technology has brought us to a new kind of service that everybody involved now, that is as, I don’t know what the proper term for it, “the publicly personal domain provider”, a service that freely available to manage and publish personal interest of its freely registered user such as blogs, profile, bookmarking, video share and search engine, what I want to discuss or ask is how far the responsibility of the owner of such website about the content of what their user publish in the site. It is not a case on the internally managed content like news site or any common personal / company websites. This is not a summary about something, this even just a question for me.
In Example, someone can post and publish a provocated or controversial topics, video or about anything in his/her blog (provided by the free provider). In that case how far is the responsibility of the user owner about the user content? could it be said that the xxxx.com should be responsible about the content, because it was on their domain.
Just like some month ago when in a popular blog aggregator website, there is a post which reveal a code for an illegal stuff, and for a moment the owner try to filter the input, but the user then can protest and the owner can’t do anything about it anymore because it was the original system of such service built to ease communication not only between its own user but openly to the public, and anyone can do anything as they wanted, is there any system to protect the owner or the user about this, if you understand my point (sorry for my horrible english), or was the responsibility fall to the user side (how they accomplish this)?
There is a condition that our site or system can be popular if we can build something above the other resource from this openly world wide web architecture. But I found or feel that somehow the site owner will loose their power on these kind of things, even if me as a user has said agree with some user agreement when first time registered, I just what to know what kind of mechanism of web owner to control their users?
Some things I feel much doubt if I was in the owner position:
- Unkown real user ID, AFAIK can only tracks user location by IP
- Anything that can be shared by user (picture, link, article, video, etc)
- User Comments
- Mash-up
Those things inside was the advantage of the www, but also actually can be used to abuse the web. If eventually we browse to some trusted site but inside the page there ‘iframe’ or ‘ajaxed division’ that link to some unproper content, how can we as the viewer can control this? how free is free?
There’s some mechanism that allowed the viewers to ‘report’ the content on this case, but how long before a person do it and the URI has been used everywhere to mark the content?
The worse is in the search engine, they just like providing link or thumbnail to ‘any’ kind of content, its actually fine for me, but where is my moral responsibility if I was the owner to provide such service, I don’t blame anyone because sometime we just saw how what we call improvation can also be the limitation or down fall of the system overall. Can the most sophisticated search engine be also the huge collection of links and host for an xxx blah blah blah resources, actually? I know that there also some control mechanism provided by one of them such as safe mode for some content searched within their site, but how much it will help. Could we think another approach to manage such a problem? (if you don’t think that it is a problem, I can change it to word ‘challange’), I thought there should many people that concern about this too.

