On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Kim Bruning
<kim(a)bruning.xs4all.nl>
wrote:
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:38:18AM +0100, Andreas
Kolbe wrote:
Wikipedia was also briefly blocked in Pakistan,
because of the
Mohammed cartoon controversy. So there might be a scenario where
countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan figure out how to block
access to adult images and images of Mohammed on Wikipedia
permanently, using methods like the ones you describe, based on the
personal image filter categories.? That might be a concern worth
talking about.
Quite so. Welcome to the discussion. :-)
Of course, it has to be balanced against the
concern that these
countries can block Wikipedia altogether.
Our strategy so far is to indeed give people the choice of all or
nothing. Most people will choose for "all", and thus we practically
remain uncensored worldwide.
If we create filter categories, our current anti-censorship strategy
will likely no longer work.
Funny how nobody is mentioning the Virgin Killer farce. The
organisation that made that happen might just ask British ISP's to
*silently* use the filter-tags to prevent British viewers to ever
know there was such tagged content at all. And just to prove I am not
being anti-British here, the Finnish police did even worse things,
but the margin of this e-mail is
too narrow to explain them.