[Wikimedia-l] Who invoked "principle of least surprise" for the image filter?

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> {{sofixit}}, just like any area with NPOV/undue weight issues.
>>
>> "The next day someone will fix it back." - Douglas Hofstadter
>
> Such is the nature of this project. If no one ever did anything
> because of that possibility, no one would ever do anything at all.

Well, it's not just that it's possible, it's that I judge the
probability to be very high.

> Rather, many of us believe that it
> would be irresponsible to implement censorship on an uncensored,
> comprehensive educational project.
>
>>> I have no
>>> problem with developing best practices, and certainly I don't think
>>> anyone will argue that we should host or retain porn or near-porn
>>> involving kids
>>
>> Certainly some people will argue this.  I believe that, fortunately,
>> most of them are banned, though.
>
> Uh...wow. One would hope so. I don't believe that's very common,
> though. Certainly no one I've heard arguing against censorship is in
> favor of that.

But a policy against porn or near-porn involving kids *is* censorship,
is it not?