On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 02:28:13PM +0100, Alasdair wrote:
On Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 13:42, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
With the tiny (actually big) problem that such lists are public and can be directly feed into the filters of not so people loving or extremely caring ISP's.
I think this is a point that I was missing about the objections to the filter system.
So a big objection is that any "sets" of filters is not so much to the "weak" filtering on wikipedia but that such "sets" would enable other censors to more easily make a form of "strong" censorship of wikipedia where some images were not available (at all) to readers - regardless of whether or not they want to see them?
I am not sure I agree with this concern as a practical matter but I can understand it as a theoretical concern.
This is an old objection, which diverse library organisations have been dealing with for at least half a century in their practice. They call such sets of prejudicial labels "Censorship Tools", and are opposed to them.
eg. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=interpretations&Template=/Conten...
See elsewhere for further sources. (they get brought up regularly)
sincerely, Kim Bruning