On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Tobias Oelgarte < tobias.oelgarte@googlemail.com> wrote:
Am 18.09.2011 09:46, schrieb Andre Engels:
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen<
cimonavaro@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 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.
And who decides which image belongs to which category. The one that will use the filter or the one that tags the image?
On itself the one who tags the image, but we happen to have a system for that in Wikimedia. It is called discussion and trying to reach consent. Who decides whether a page is in a category? Who decides whether a page has an image? Who decides whether something is decribed on a page? All the same.
Additionally: Is the reader able to choose if China would use the tags to exclude content before it can the reader? Wouldn't we be responsible it, if the feature is misused this way, since we know how easy it can be misused?
I don't think it's that easy, and if it were, the best thing would be to make it harder to misuse rather than to throw away the child with the bathwater.