On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 13:28, Alasdair <[email protected]> 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. Has the board or WMF talked about / > addressed this issue anywhere in regards to "set" based filter systems? > > > > I find it highly unconvincing and wrote an extended blog post on the > topic a while back: > > http://blog.tommorris.org/post/11286767288/opt-in-image-filter-enabling-censorware > > I found that a very entertaining, well-argued, and salient post. Andreas _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
