"I know it when I see it"
The finest of legal minds gave us this from the US Supreme Court:
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"], and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it...
and that's not for want of trying. So the idea that a bunch of image filters will usefully judge whether Michael Phelps poised on the starting block is more or less unsafe than something plainly salacious but better clad is, shall we say, arousingly provocative...
But as so often it will come down legal tickboxing: run our special script and then bask in the security of having adopted "industry best practice", regardless of actual outcomes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
