On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl wrote:
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.
I think you're taking the use of an image filter to a bizarre absolute. There *are* shades of grey here. My understanding of the proposal is that it people will voluntarily have certain images that have the potential to cause offense hidden by default, with a click-to-show. When somebody starts saying that they want meaningfully different article content for every country or point of view, then I think you'd be justified in bringing this up.