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

Kim Bruning kim at bruning.xs4all.nl
Sat Oct 1 00:30:59 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 09:10:37PM +0200, Andre Engels wrote:
> 
> No, we won't be. We will be putting certain categories/tags/classifications
> on images, but it will still be the readers themselves who decide whether or
> not they see the tagged images.

Well, those tags would be public, so *anyone* can decide whether or not
downstream can see the tagged images. 

Semantically and technically there's very little difference between our
current proposed implementation and that of intermediate parties.
The consequences are both obvious and chilling.

We might be just a little too close to the edge on this one. We
need some other options. :)


Fortunately, people like Erik Moeller have been considering other
implementations, where no central categories or lists are used.

Those seem MUCH more sane, and are probably the way forward here. :-)


sincerely,
	Kim Bruning


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