[Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

[Dirk Franke]

For anybody interested: I wrote a blog-post full of disagreement :-)

http://asinliberty.blogspot.com/2011/09/sorry-sue-gardner-but-image-filter.html

regards,
southpark

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:45 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 September 2011 07:40, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> This post appears mostly to be the tone argument:
> >> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument
> >> - rather than address those opposed to the WMF (the body perceived to
> >> be abusing its power), Sue frames their arguments as badly-formed and
> >> that they should therefore be ignored.
> >> This is somewhat problematic.
>
> > I read a rock and a hard place.  So yeah, problematic.  By sound, I meant
> > from her position.
>
>
> The complete absence of mentioning the de:wp poll that was 85% against
> any imposed filter is just *weird*. Not mentioning it, and not
> acknowledging why someone would do that, doesn't make it go away.
>
> As you say, this blog post reads like someone forced to defend the
> indefensible, hence the glaringly defective arguments. This will
> convince no-one the post claims to be addressing.
>
>
> - d.
>
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