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

Andre Engels andreengels at gmail.com
Sun Sep 18 12:02:15 UTC 2011


On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay. Is there a commitment on the part of the foundation that they will
> help
> people using our filtering scheme and the usual browser add-ons to Wmake it
> impossible to view material on wikipedia from schools with a religious
> orientation,
> but students of way past any reasonable age of consent get past the
> filters?
>

Not as far as I know.


> Once you tag something, you lose control over what that tag is used for. We
> might be talking about primary schools, but we could just as easily be
> blocked
> by colleges and high schools, where limiting hormonal damage would be a
> joke.
>

So? The plans as they are include giving the user the option to remove the
filter, or see blocked images, whenever they like.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com


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