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

Kim Bruning kim at bruning.xs4all.nl
Thu Dec 1 15:03:11 UTC 2011


On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 08:53:09PM +1100, John Vandenberg wrote:
> The latter can be solved by labelling but not filtering.  If you are
> on the train and a link is annotated with a tag "nsfw", you can not
> click it, or be wary about the destination page.

Dude, no. That's prejudicial labelling. 

Filtering:meh
Prejudicial Labelling: evil. Widely considered a Bad Idea (tm), since at least the '50s

The reason filtering is 'meh' (as opposed to 'mostly harmless') is
because it is hard to do without prejudicial labelling.  

sincerely,
	Kim Bruning




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