[Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

Richard Farmbrough richard at farmbrough.co.uk
Wed Sep 14 18:54:26 UTC 2011


Unfortunately the proposed mechanism (which cannot with integrity be 
disentangled from the proposal, for juts such reasons as this) would 
download the images regardless, the filter would merely affect the 
display.  It is possible that even a smarter mechanism might suffer the 
same drawback if a web accelerator is in use.

On 14/09/2011 18:17, Andre Engels wrote:
> Probably, although there might be additional cases where they want to block
> images, not because they themselves disagree with them, but because
> possession on their computer might be illegal for them.
>
>





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