On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Andreas K. <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If the image filter uses a user-specific personal filter list stored on the > Foundation's server, that would assume that the censor can populate the > user's list without the user noticing, can prevent the user from emptying > their PFL again, and can disable the user's ability to click on a hidden > image to reveal it. Is there something that we could do to make that more > difficult, or impossible? Because then any censor would be back to square > one, left to their own devices, rather than being able to ride piggy-back > on our filter function. > Two misconceptions there. A genuine dyed-in-the-wool censor wouldn't give two figs about whether the user trying to access non-conformant material was aware or not of being restricted from accessing it. Secondly, if there is no forcibly programmed barrier, of course, a user can just bypass a soft barrier, but censors rarely use soft barriers, they tend to be a bit more hardnosed about it. One of my principle objections about the whole idea of doing anything remotely along the lines of what the board resolutions and board meeting minutes appear to reveal about their approach -- more direct speech from that direction would be welcome, of course, so we do not work under a misapprehension about their real goals -- is that creating the structured informational web of potentional controversial content knowledge-base is a highly complex task (I would say impossible, but there seems to be a viewpoint in the direction of the WMF that it could be done) and having made such a creature purely by the actions of a community who in fact are largely philosophically opposed to doing any such thing, then we as a community would be morally obligated to try to mitigate any attempts to subvert the use of such a knowledge-base. Which, I do assure you, might not prove to be a trivial task. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
