On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, David Goodman <dgoodma...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... I see no reason why we should cooperate > with censorship, however well intentioned.
I think cooperation with censorship is the only safe ground. If we perform censorship ourselves, the quality of our projects suffers and/or contributors leave in disgust. If we are uncooperative with censorship, we are in effect using our projects, which have a very large footprint on the internet, to aggressively force the issue. I think this is a distraction. Whether or not our readers accept or desire censorship is their decision, and it is common for parents to want to censor what their children can access. That is the reality of it. I agree with Andreas that is our loss if we force these people to "ban" Wikipedia when they would prefer to censor only the most obscene. Instead of deleting pornographic content that we deem "important" to the projects, we can tag those images in a uniform manner and emit POWDER ICRA labelling[1] or similar. The filters can then scale with us. 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-powder-primer-20090901/#ICRA1 -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
