[Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

Tom Morris tom at tommorris.org
Thu Dec 1 06:33:20 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 03:34, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While I don't find that line of argument to be a fully fledged
> straw-horse argument, it
> does appear to me to be a cherry-picked argument to *attempt* to
> refute. There are
> much stronger arguments, both practical and philosophical, at any
> attempt to elide
> controversial content. Even as such, I am not convinced by the
> argumentation, but
> would not prefer to rebut an argument that does not address the
> strongest reasons
> for opposing elision of controversial content, by choice or otherwise.
>

My point was not to provide an argument for or against any particular
implementation. It was a response to one particularly god-awful
argument.

-- 
Tom Morris
<http://tommorris.org/>



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