[Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 09:44:31 UTC 2011


On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>
>
>> Wikimedia *used* to hold the position that we wouldn't aid China to block
>> images of the Tianamen Massacre, and went to great lengths to assure
>> that chinese users of Wikipedia could evade blocks to viewing. I am not
>> sure you are on a right track with regards to our traditions and values
a>> here.
>>
>
> There's a big difference between the two in that the Chinese case was about
> people wanting to decide what _others_ could see, the filter is about people
> wanting to decide what _they themselves_ would see.
>

Okay. Is there a commitment on the part of the foundation that they will help
people using our filtering scheme and the usual browser add-ons to Wmake it
impossible to view material on wikipedia from schools with a religious
orientation,
but students of way past any reasonable age of consent get past the filters?

Once you tag something, you lose control over what that tag is used for. We
might be talking about primary schools, but we could just as easily be blocked
by colleges and high schools, where limiting hormonal damage would be a joke.



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