[Foundation-l] Image filter brainstorming: Personal filter lists

Wed Nov 30 16:26:44 UTC 2011

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 13:28, Alasdair <web at ajbpearce.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 29 November 2011 at 13:42, Tobias Oelgarte wrote:
> >
> >> With the tiny (actually big) problem that such lists are public and can
> >> be directly feed into the filters of not so people loving or extremely
> >> caring ISP's.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >  I think this is a point that I was missing about the objections to the
> filter system.
> >
> > So a big objection is that any "sets" of filters is not so much to the
> "weak" filtering on wikipedia but that such "sets"  would enable other
> censors to more easily make a form of "strong" censorship of wikipedia
> where some images were not available (at all) to readers - regardless of
> whether or not they want to see them?
> >
> > I am not sure I agree with this concern as a practical matter but I can
> understand it as a theoretical concern. Has the board or WMF talked about /
> addressed this issue anywhere in regards to "set" based filter systems?
> >
>
> I find it highly unconvincing and wrote an extended blog post on the
> topic a while back:
>
> http://blog.tommorris.org/post/11286767288/opt-in-image-filter-enabling-censorware
>
>

I found that a very entertaining, well-argued, and salient post.

Andreas