# Issues which could be possible
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** discourse-hub
**Created:** [November 22, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898 "2015-11-22T08:22:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2015, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/1 "2015-11-22T08:22:34Z")
Discourse hub sound really promising. But won’t it be an issue if the centralised system would be linked to an illegal discourse site.?
For example I create an illegal site which contains piracy material. [Mypiracysite.com](http://Mypiracysite.com) which is based on a discourse forum. By having the centralised hub the discourse hub user id can login to my site and access the content.?
On a second note what will discourse do about an illegal site which is related to piracy / racism?
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### Author:  [@omfg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omfg)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2015, 9:07am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/2 "2015-11-22T09:07:55Z")
IMO Discourse should do nothing, because it’s not a world police.
Digital piracy and racism aren’t illegal everywhere.
But you should be able to ban, or maybe approve (easier?) anyone who wants to access your instance using global credentials.
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### Author:  [@Nathaniel\_Mattocks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nathaniel_Mattocks)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/3 "2015-11-22T09:10:23Z")
> [@omfg](#):
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> Digital piracy and racism aren’t illegal everywhere.
Yeah, but they are in most places, especially piracy…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/4 "2015-11-22T13:34:27Z")
The approach described is really identical to gravatar, except it pulls across more than just an avatar. So ask yourself, why doesn’t gravatar care about this? Same reasons.
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### Author:  [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/5 "2015-11-22T14:45:45Z")
Your site shall be banned from where it is illegal @Alankrit_Choudh, the hub will continue to stream out data.
Technically, the hub will be doing **basically** the same as radio broadcasting. Anyone can pick up the signal, and the hub has nothing to do with how they use it.
Now, of course there is _some_ back and forth communication, unlike the radio waves, but they are just handshaking needed to make such digital “broadcasting” possible, which is way more economical in terms of power needed to shout out signals. It’s like a radio station running in a single AAA battery and still able to reach the other side of the world - thanks to that technical handshake.
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### Author:  [@omfg](https://meta.discourse.org/u/omfg)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2015, 6:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/6 "2015-11-22T18:53:47Z")
> [@Nathaniel\_Mattocks](#):
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> Yeah, but they are in most places, especially piracy…
In most of those places admins can block pirates.
And before they do did they would need to consider which of their users might be in violation.
That isn’t an issue Discourse hub can or should deal with. There are courts and judges in every country. Of course Discourse could choose to act as global policeman, but why would anyone want to use such an unreliable system?
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### Author:  [@RickCogley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RickCogley)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2015, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/7 "2015-11-23T00:02:16Z")
Governments and anti-piracy agencies apply massive amounts of money to combat piracy, so isn’t it wildly impractical to think discourse hub could do it?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 11:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-which-could-be-possible/35898/8 "2016-01-08T11:43:43Z")
Continued here:
> [@Revitalizing the Discourse Hub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029):
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> The original basic idea of the Discourse Hub have a reserved @username across all Discourse instances, so when someone sees @username on any Discourse forum, they’ll know it is (probably) you! … seems like kind of a bad idea in retrospect. Why? Well, if you run your own Discourse, and your name is @david, you probably want to be called @david, even if some other David reserved the name in Feburary 2013 here on meta. It is your community, after all, who are we to tell you that you can’t use y…