On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Tobias Oelgarte < tobias.oelga...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Am 18.09.2011 09:46, schrieb Andre Engels: > > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:49 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen< > cimonav...@gmail.com > >> wrote: > > > >> Wikimedia *used* to hold the position that we wouldn't aid China to > block > >> images of the Tianamen Massacre, and went to great lengths to assure > >> that chinese users of Wikipedia could evade blocks to viewing. I am not > >> sure you are on a right track with regards to our traditions and values > >> here. > >> > > There's a big difference between the two in that the Chinese case was > about > > people wanting to decide what _others_ could see, the filter is about > people > > wanting to decide what _they themselves_ would see. > > > And who decides which image belongs to which category. The one that will > use the filter or the one that tags the image? > On itself the one who tags the image, but we happen to have a system for that in Wikimedia. It is called discussion and trying to reach consent. Who decides whether a page is in a category? Who decides whether a page has an image? Who decides whether something is decribed on a page? All the same. > Additionally: Is the reader able to choose if China would use the tags > to exclude content before it can the reader? Wouldn't we be responsible > it, if the feature is misused this way, since we know how easy it can be > misused? > I don't think it's that easy, and if it were, the best thing would be to make it harder to misuse rather than to throw away the child with the bathwater. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
