On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 September 2011 18:24, Theo10011 <de10...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other >> euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and >> what not. > > That is just completely untrue. The image filter will allow people to > choose what to see and what not to see. We won't be making the > decisions...
Since the filter doesn't exist yet, nor are there any technical descriptions of how it might work, it's impossible to make definitive pronouncements. Even so, readers won't be the ones making the crucial decisions about categorization - and readers might be at the mercy of libraries, schools, workplaces, governments, etc. that make use of the filter non-optional. We should assume that any system that relies on editor-generated categories will be a long-term battleground; as we've always seen, those with the most extreme positions come to dominate the most contentious areas - requiring the intervention of many others over extended periods of time to reach incremental compromises. The image filter will likely be no different. Nathan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
