I've managed to code up some radical changes to the newsfeed system - which I believe will allow us to provide some (very limited) functionality w/r/t reading news without causing any legal issues and without subjecting any site members to liability just for the crime of looking at published newsfeeds. I'll be enabling some of this in the next several days as I get any remaining kinks worked out.

The ability to import articles into the CMS from newsfeeds will not be included. I could of course take the common approach and let y'all take legal responsibility for your own imported content, but that's hardly the kind of thing that a reputable web service would do to its members. Granted that's what some supposedly reputable web services do, but I don't necessarily agree that it's the right thing to do.

You probably should be cautious in any articles you publish to this site that any citations you might provide from elsewhere are free and clear - as we're under a bit of extra legal scrutiny at the moment. It's generally OK to include a snippet of an external article and add comment to it. Don't include the entire source article; and ensure that you have provided additional content/commentary written in your own words.