On 04/09/2011 3:11 PM, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
That is where I disagree. The personal image filter doesn't make much sense in German Wikipedia, since the German culture is generally pretty liberal with respect to depictions of sexuality, (partially) violence and of course Muhammed. So it's clear that there is simply no or a very small necessity for a filter; thus the rejection.
And that's the best argument *against* the filter I've seen in a while because it reiterates that it has - at its core - the insurmountable problem that it attempts to provide a method by which "objectionable" material can be filtered without being able to define what "objectionable" means in any meaningfully culturally-neutral way. (Hint: the answer is "it cannot be done").
It wouldn't even be possible to define a meaningful "nudity" category, and that's arguably the simplest of all.
-- Coren / Marc