On 05/02/2008, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Can you explain how an opt-out mechanism (by which I
mean,
certain content can be hidden if an easily-offended reader
(a) has JavaScript enabled and (b) checks a preference or clicks
a "hide" button) is "censorship"? We would not be controlling
what others can see; we would merely be giving them tools to allow
them to tailor what they see.
The difficulty is how things get tagged in the first place; you would
need to have a reliable source that says that it is a particular sort
of content. It's not enough for an editor to say it.
--
-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly
imperfect world things would be a lot better.