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

[Tom Morris]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 13:28, Alasdair <web at ajbpearce.co.uk> wrote:
> 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?
>

I find it highly unconvincing and wrote an extended blog post on the
topic a while back:
http://blog.tommorris.org/post/11286767288/opt-in-image-filter-enabling-censorware

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Tom Morris
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