I think there are definitely some neutral criteria which might be applicable. And maybe there are some criteria which are harder to neutralize (yeah, i know - has a different meaning :) )
Take for example nudity. It should be possible to create a category "Images that show a vagina", "images that show a penis" which can even be subcategorized into "(...) as main topic of the picture" or "(...) as detail of the picture". It will require some work and thinking by neutrality thinkers like you, but it should be possible. And I'm confident that you and the likes of you will stay close on the topic to help us remember that we should make it as objective as possible.
The next step is that someone can use these neutral categories to choose what he/she wants or does not want to see. For example, maybe someone has a fear of elevators, so that person can hide all images in the category "images that show an elevator".
Violence is definitely a topic harder to define objectively - but I'm confident we'll find a way to do that. If people have problems with that, we shouldn't change the categories (we could add more), but they should change their filter, and choose other categories to hide/show.
The only truely non-neutral part could be where we suggest which categories someone might want to hide. Or packages of categories.
Lodewijk
2011/8/26 Kim Bruning kim@bruning.xs4all.nl
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 01:25:32PM +0530, Bishakha Datta wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:45 AM, David Goodman dggenwp@gmail.com
wrote:
I want to ask you something else. It's been suggested several times at various places that the present resolution is justified as a compromise to prevent a considerably more repressive form of censorship.
This implies that the proposed image hiding feature is a less repressive form of censorship. I do not see the proposed feature as censorship - all the images remain on the site. Nothing is removed. Nothing is suppressed. Everything remains.
The image hiding feature itself is not a form of censorship, as far as I'm aware of.
The data used to feed the image hiding feature can be classified as a "censorship tool" (Source: ALA... Read The Fine Thread for details).
Even if we *never* build the image hider itself, but just prepare special categories for it, we would be participating in (stages of) censorship.
sincerely, Kim Bruning
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