Some revisions to the guidelines

Thanks for the good comments, David.

We've been thinking about these issues from the beginning, and decided that we don't want to be in the business of deciding what constitutes hate speech.

To an African-American, a page containing the Confederate flag could be considered  hate speech. A page condemning the U.S. invasion of Iraq in strong terms could be considered hate speech.

So we're not going to get into that game. We're about inclusion, not exclusion -- including the parts of humanity that most of us don't like.

That's what a global library does.

As for porn: If we gave a precise definition, and a porn merchant found a loophole or a way around it, they could then come at us and force us to accept their pornographic images, and we might have to shut down.

So, let's see what happens, and if we need to refine our site rules, we will.