Am 16.09.2011 11:42, schrieb Rama Neko:

What motives this rejection? Has the nature of the filter been understood? Do people fear a creep towards censorship? Something else?
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The main arguments (as i remember) are:
* Non-neutral judgment about content (violates NPOV)
* Discrimination of content (labeling alone would do this)
* Additional big room for conflict (labeling procedure based on POV-only)
* Decisions are already made locally by consent inside the articles
* Template design for censorship (easy to implement misuse trough third parties [proxy, ISP, ...], especially in underdeveloped regions), resulting in no-choice option.
* Social pressure will enforce the activation of the filter
* Open question: Who decides what will be seen? (reader or the labeler)
* Open question: On what basis will the decisions be made.
* ...

A full list of the arguments can be seen at the beginning of the poll (pro and contra arguments) [1] Someone we good knowledge in German and English might want to translate them. It is a long list.

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meinungsbilder/Einf%C3%BChrung_pers%C3%B6nlicher_Bildfilter