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

[Alasdair]

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? 

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Alasdair (User:Ajbpearce)