[Foundation-l] 86% of german users disagree with the introduction of the personal image filter

[Richard Farmbrough]

On 16/09/2011 23:55, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
> Am 16.09.2011 22:53, schrieb Stephen Bain:
>> Indeed. I think some of the problems some people are predicting have
>> been drastically exaggerated.
>>
>> As long as the option to hide all images is also implemented, we can
>> quite simply add a disclaimer when anyone goes to turn on a filter
>> indicating that if complete exclusion is particularly important to
>> them, they should choose the option to hide everything by default.
>>
> Would we do that for text as well? Where is the fundamental difference
> between text and images? Both can be objectionable or offending to some
> readers/viewers. Is there a real difference?
>
> Wouldn't be a simple button to hide all images be enough to reach our
> goal, without the need to introduce categories?
>
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I have already demonstrated how the image filter could be used as a text 
filter.  Incidentally most of these arguments have already been laid out 
clearly on Meta, de: and en: