[Foundation-l] Possible solution for image filter

Tobias Oelgarte tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 21 17:08:10 UTC 2011


Am 21.09.2011 18:45, schrieb Milos Rancic:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 18:00, David Levy<lifeisunfair at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Some people won't be content until Wikipedia's prose conveys their
>> cultural/religious/spiritual beliefs as absolute truth.  Should the
>> WMF provide en.[insert belief system].wikipedia.org so they can edit
>> it and leave the rest of us alone?
> Don't worry! Any implementation of censorship project would lead to
> endless troll-fests which would be more dumb than Youtube comments.
> The point is just to kick out them out of productive projects. Imagine
> a place where Christian, Muslim,<religon3>,<religionN>
> fundamentalists will have to cooperate! That would be the place for
> epic battles of dumbness. We'll have in-house circus!
Then why some people think we could solve this problem with an _global_ 
filter, with rules and judgment that will be defined by an mostly 
English speaking, Christianity dominated project?



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