On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 13:28, Alasdair web@ajbpearce.co.uk 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. Has the board or WMF talked about / addressed this issue anywhere in regards to "set" based filter systems?
I find it highly unconvincing and wrote an extended blog post on the topic a while back: http://blog.tommorris.org/post/11286767288/opt-in-image-filter-enabling-cens...