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But isn't this kind of the point? This gives you a programmatic way to specify to your media player just what content you don't want to watch. If this stuff
by bertjk 11y ago
But isn't this kind of the point? This gives you a programmatic way to specify to your media player just what content you don't want to watch. If this stuff gets popular, then the publishers should feel less pressure to censor themselves.
- marco1 11y agoExactly, thank you! And, in consequence, reducing the level of censorship that is forced upon you without your consent.
- jcoffland 11y agoWill they? Who wants their artistry chopped up by an automatic filter? This is a lot like the movie rating system. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanzakarin/movie-ratings-mpaa-are-insane http://www.buzzfeed.com/jordanzakarin/movie-ratings-mpaa-are... Many people disagree but I don't like giving groups like the MPAA the unfettered ability to label what's good and bad.
- DanBC 11y agoYou can see the MPAA is a system imposed by other people, and this is a self-imposed system? And that this self-imposed system affects no one else?
- Nadya 11y ago>But isn't this kind of the point? This gives you a programmatic way to specify to your media player just what content you don't want to watch Only if the filters are accurate. Which is impossible since severity will differ from person to person. Eventually someone will have to make the calls on what gets cut and if so, at what severity. At which point individuals are trusting someone else to "censor properly". For this to work with a large community - severity needs a strict definition. An example as to why: Nemo's mother's implied death in Finding Nemo { Category: Death, Severity: High } Inappropriate/misogynistic humor in Finding Nemo (every single scene with Doroth in particular) { Category: Langage, Severity: High } Shark chase scene in Finding Nemo { Category: Violence, Severity: High } I'm sure I could find some more problematic scenes in Finding Nemo. There are enough scenes to remove to turn it from PG to G, and honestly "lower than G" if that were even such a thing. And since the severity is "high" it would be censored uniformly across all thresholds, making the different thresholds meaningless.
- jcoffland 11y agoThe assumption that the censor will just do the right thing is where the real danger lies. People are likely down voting you because they think it's ridiculous to think that a shark in Finding Nemo would be classified as high severity violence. Still you have hit upon the point but perhaps with an extreme example.
- Nadya 11y ago>People are likely down voting you because they think it's ridiculous to think that a shark in Finding Nemo would be classified as high severity violence. Still you have hit upon the point but perhaps with an extreme example. Who gets to judge that that is an "extreme" example? I'm a fragile person and found those scenes extremely frightening. Are they going to tell me I'm wrong? Who are they to judge my emotions? If I'm going to be subject to such violence even with the setting on the highest it will go then it is completely useless to me and others who are easily triggered if we are still going to have to watch graphic scenes. I want to see a reasonable argument against that which doesn't involve doublethink. If it involves setting strict standards for how ratings are judged - that's the exact flaw I was pointing out.