[Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

[Andre Engels]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Tobias Oelgarte <
tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 18.09.2011 09:46, schrieb Andre Engels:
> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen<
> cimonavaro at gmail.com
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Wikimedia *used* to hold the position that we wouldn't aid China to
> block
> >> images of the Tianamen Massacre, and went to great lengths to assure
> >> that chinese users of Wikipedia could evade blocks to viewing. I am not
> >> sure you are on a right track with regards to our traditions and values
> >> here.
> >>
> > There's a big difference between the two in that the Chinese case was
> about
> > people wanting to decide what _others_ could see, the filter is about
> people
> > wanting to decide what _they themselves_ would see.
> >
> And who decides which image belongs to which category. The one that will
> use the filter or the one that tags the image?
>

On itself the one who tags the image, but we happen to have a system for
that in Wikimedia. It is called discussion and trying to reach consent. Who
decides whether a page is in a category? Who decides whether a page has an
image? Who decides whether something is decribed on a page? All the same.


> Additionally: Is the reader able to choose if China would use the tags
> to exclude content before it can the reader? Wouldn't we be responsible
> it, if the feature is misused this way, since we know how easy it can be
> misused?
>

I don't think it's that easy, and if it were, the best thing would be to
make it harder to misuse rather than to throw away the child with the
bathwater.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com