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Comment by garysahota93 | Hacker News Reader

Yeah, I had a question around how to stop people from claiming "legit" brands and bashing them? I could easily see someone take a brand like Uber or Airbnb and start creating content that could get the actual brand in legit trouble. Cool concept though! I like the simplicity.

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Good question and it's definitely a concern. For now, I'm just monitoring things manually, but certainly would need a more scalable system if the site grows.

Awesome! As long as you're monitoring it. Keep this going!

Or worse like paste in, Bitcoin and other public places people will post urls to terrible/illegal things on the internet. People always find a way to ruin the public commons.

Honestly, a more scarier concern is that there is likely to various illegal things posted on this as soon as enough people get on it.

So how many of the images that have been linked to are child porn?

I understand the concern, but I wonder if it's real. I can bash Facebook in this comment right now, lie, but is HackerNews legally responsible for this comment? I honestly don't know the laws. Seems like I should.

If the brand has no affiliation with the person who posted the content, how is the brand getting in trouble?

I for one am not too worried about "legit" brands being squatted. No sane person thinks https://sdnotes.com/facebook was made by Facebook.

Facebooks' lawyers are not sane. ^__^

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