On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:28:13PM +0100, Alasdair wrote: > On Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 13:42, Tobias Oelgarte wrote: > > > With the tiny (actually big) problem that such lists are public and can be > > directly feed into the > > filters of not so people loving or extremely caring ISP's. > > > > > > I think this is a point that I was missing about the objections to the > filter system. > > So a big objection is that any "sets" of filters is not so much to the "weak" > filtering on wikipedia but > that such "sets" would enable other censors to more easily make a form of > "strong" censorship of > wikipedia where some images were not available (at all) to readers - > regardless of whether or not they > want to see them?
> I am not sure I agree with this concern as a practical matter but I can > understand it as a theoretical > concern. This is an old objection, which diverse library organisations have been dealing with for at least half a century in their practice. They call such sets of prejudicial labels "Censorship Tools", and are opposed to them. eg. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=interpretations&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8657 See elsewhere for further sources. (they get brought up regularly) sincerely, Kim Bruning -- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
