On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhadatta@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 16:24, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Milos, I believe this is exactly the kind of post that Sue was talking
about
in her blog. It is aggressive, it is alienating, and it is intimidating
to
others who may have useful and progressive ideas but are repeatedly
seeing
the opinions of others dismissed because they're women/not women or
from
the
US/not from the US. The implication of your post is "if you're a woman
from
the US, your opinion is invalid". Your post here did not further the discussion in any way, and I politely ask you to refrain from making
such
posts in the future.
As mentioned by Nathan and Oliver, I want to hear what do women think about the filter, how does it correlate with positions of men and how does it correlate with cultures.
I am not convinced that all women feel the same way about the filter, nor all men - similarly, cultures are not homogenous. It is hard to generalize on any of these bases (plural of 'basis'), because there is no simple correlation.
Different individuals can have different responses, regardless of gender or culture. It doesn't tie in so neatly.
Speaking for myself, no, I can't see myself using the filter. So what? That doesn't mean I use myself as a proxy for the rest of the world to decide that no one else should, or that anyone who does is somehow a lesser human. And yes, I'm against censorship, but as I've said before, I don't see the filter as proposed as censorship.
The world is made up of different folks, whether we like it or not. And just as we provide for the person who doesn't flinch when seeing a vulva, why is it so wrong to even think about the person who does flinch when he or she sees a vulva? That's what I don't get.
Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what not. It should not be our job to censor our own content. The strongest argument I read against this has been - it is not something WMF and the board should implement and develop, If there was a need to censor/cleanse graphic content, there would a successful mirror or a fork of the project already somewhere. Instead, we have small distributions/projects which use 1-2 year old offline dumps to cleanse and then consider safe.
Now, If you were to apply this argument to a government, or a regime and they decide on removing things that make them flinch - how different would we be from dictatorial regimes who limit/restrict access to Wikipedia for all the people that do flinch? I can point to Indian I&B ministry issues or Film censor board of India, but you probably know more about them than me.
Regards Theo