On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 13:28, Alasdair <w...@ajbpearce.co.uk> 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 -- Tom Morris <http://tommorris.org/> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l