On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Kim Bruning <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:38:18AM +0100, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
>> Wikipedia was also briefly blocked in Pakistan, because of the Mohammed 
>> cartoon controversy. So there might be a scenario where countries like Saudi 
>> Arabia and Pakistan figure out how to block access to adult images and 
>> images of Mohammed on Wikipedia permanently, using methods like the ones you 
>> describe, based on the personal image filter categories.?
>> That might be a concern worth talking about.
>
> Quite so. Welcome to the discussion. :-)
>
>> Of course, it has to be balanced against the concern that these countries 
>> can block Wikipedia altogether.
>
> Our strategy so far is to indeed give people the choice of all or
> nothing. Most people will choose for "all", and thus we practically
> remain uncensored worldwide.
>
> If we create filter categories, our current anti-censorship strategy
> will likely no longer work.
>

Funny how nobody is mentioning the Virgin Killer farce. The organisation
that made that happen might just ask British ISP's to *silently* use the
filter-tags to prevent British viewers to ever know there was such tagged
content at all. And just to prove I am not being anti-British here, the
Finnish police did even worse things, but the margin of this e-mail is
too narrow to explain them.

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]

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