> > I fundamentally disagree. If the content can be managed to be culturally > sound, that is effective to disseminate globally. If Islamic countries do > not want to see images of Mohammed, that is effect in maintaining other > content without blocking the site. Same applies to other religious imagery, > political imagery, sexual imagery, and whatever else. The filter is for > images, and while pictures are louder than words, we can at least have the > words while maintaining cultural integrity.
The end game for this strategy of giving every (sub-) culture their own subset of the images and/or text (when every medium agrees all at once), and where everyone lives past each other is actually well known and well studied: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarization Due to my knowing the historical context, I would actually prefer that people were confronted by cultural differences and have a healthy dialogue about them, to prevent or mitigate pillarization. Then again, that's a deeply held cultural belief in the part of the world that I live in, and you might not share it. ;-) sincerely, Kim Bruning _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l