On 04/09/2011 3:11 PM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote: > > That is where I disagree. The personal image filter doesn't make much > sense in German Wikipedia, since the German culture is generally pretty > liberal with respect to depictions of sexuality, (partially) violence > and of course Muhammed. So it's clear that there is simply no or a very > small necessity for a filter; thus the rejection.
And that's the best argument *against* the filter I've seen in a while because it reiterates that it has - at its core - the insurmountable problem that it attempts to provide a method by which "objectionable" material can be filtered without being able to define what "objectionable" means in any meaningfully culturally-neutral way. (Hint: the answer is "it cannot be done"). It wouldn't even be possible to define a meaningful "nudity" category, and that's arguably the simplest of all. -- Coren / Marc _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
