[WikiEN-l] "I want to at least kill the responsible person."

[Charlotte Webb]

On 2/5/08, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> By "opt-in", I assume you mean that someone can opt in to the
> hiding mechanism, meaning that they have to explicitly opt *out*
> of seeing the potentially-offending content.  And vice versa.
>
> (But although this sort of thing seems like an obvious and
> reasonable compromise to me, I'm not so sure we could just
> "ram one through", because plenty of people do seem to equate
> such things with unacceptable censorship.  See e.g. Chris Howie's
> comments elsethread: "We do not censor ourselves.  This includes
> opt-in/out mechanisms that are censorship bearing the form of a
> reasonable compromise.")

Not to mention the lack of an objective way to determine whether an
image (or anything else) is "potentially-offending" enough that an
otherwise reasonable person somewhere might want to opt out of it.
It's not our place to make that decision for this or any other
content.

—C.W.