On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:25:32PM +0530, Bishakha Datta wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:45 AM, David Goodman dggenwp@gmail.com wrote:
I want to ask you something else. It's been suggested several times at various places that the present resolution is justified as a compromise to prevent a considerably more repressive form of censorship.
This implies that the proposed image hiding feature is a less repressive form of censorship. I do not see the proposed feature as censorship - all the images remain on the site. Nothing is removed. Nothing is suppressed. Everything remains.
The image hiding feature itself is not a form of censorship, as far as I'm aware of.
The data used to feed the image hiding feature can be classified as a "censorship tool" (Source: ALA... Read The Fine Thread for details).
Even if we *never* build the image hider itself, but just prepare special categories for it, we would be participating in (stages of) censorship.
sincerely, Kim Bruning