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=/Conteā¦
See elsewhere for further sources. (they get brought up regularly)
sincerely,
Kim Bruning
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