2008/12/9 Durova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This leaves several outstanding problems: > 1. How many other of the 10,000 censorship decisions IWF censored this year > were equally dubious?
Not our problem but the odds are not many. > 2. How does anyone find out about them, much less contest the mistakes? By getting demon as your ISP then setting a bot to crawl the entire web. > 3. What do we do about other sites that censor useful material in an > arbitrary manner? Again not our problem. What other sites chose to do is not of our business. > > I blogged today about the IWF and about Facebook. Facebook has censored one > of the featured pictures I restored for Wikipedia. The image generated zero > complaints from 17.3 million page views when it ran on Wikipedia's main > page, and I presented it in my profile merely as one of dozens of examples > of featured content work. > > Yet Facebook provided no means of appeal, and my own efforts to contact them > and seek reconsideration fell on deaf ears. > > The problem is bigger than IWF. Private sites have every right to restrict what they allow on their sites. That includes wikipedia. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
