[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[Thomas Dalton]

On Sep 4, 2011 11:02 PM, "Kim Bruning" <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 10:50:26PM +0100, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > On 4 September 2011 21:18, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > I really wish people would read previous discussions.
> >
> > I read the discussions, I just don't see any merit in the arguments.
> > Of course the labels are prejudiced, that's the whole point. People
> > can choose which prejudice they want and filter on those labels.
>
> Yes, exactly! You're smart! :-)
>
> Now, one definition of censorship is :
> * Filtering on the basis of prejudicial labels.
>
> We're not actually allowed to censor, because censorship is evil.
>
> If we want to do this, we'll need to figure out a way to make an image
filter
> which does not use prejudicial labels.

Or we just reject that definition as obviously not applicable. If people are
choosing for themselves whether to filter and, if so, what on then it
clearly isn't censorship.