On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Marc A. Pelletier <m...@uberbox.org> wrote: > 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.
That's not a sensible assertion. The fact that being in or out of a category is inherently a matter of degree rather than a binary thing doesn't mean that there's no difference between a picture of a rabbit and a screengrab from (freely licensed, of course) hardcore pornography. Sure, there'd need to be some understanding of what's in and what's out of various categories, and it's not possible to make that completely objective. But that doesn't mean it's not a useful or worthwhile exercise. -- Andrew Garrett Wikimedia Foundation agarr...@wikimedia.org _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
