[Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

[Kim Bruning]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:15:48AM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
> On 26 August 2011 08:55, Bishakha Datta <bishakhadatta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Are we truly on a slippery slope with 'informative labelling' with neutral
> > language? Or can this be considered another aspect of curation?
> 
> 
> We have a category system. Modulo idiots (the danger of a wiki is that
> people can edit it), it mostly works.
> 
> How neutral can a "block any image in these categories" system be?

In that scenario: On day 1, the system, and categories, will be entirely
neutral. However the categories that are blessed (cursed) by the
image-hiding system are now potentially non-neutral.

Due to the way wikis work: by day ~365, the categories will very likely
be non-neutral in practice. We'll then be in the same situation as if we
had started out with non-neutral categories in the first place (verboten).

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning


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