On 02/11/2011 6:36 AM, me(a)marcusbuck.org wrote:
Wait am moment... Wikipedia Zero is an extension to
Wikipedia that
filters out images? And not even some of them on a totally voluntary
base but all of them for everybody? I guess I better shut down my
e-mail account to prevent the flood of angry mailing list posts from
the censorship theoreticists...
Well, you'll hear no such thing from me (and I'm arguably one of the
more verbal opponents of the image filter as originally proposed). This
neatly sidestep all of the fatal flaws with filters where moral
judgments are imposed, or our well-intended technology is misused to
readers' detriment.
-- Coren / Marc