-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 11/15/14, 5:10 PM, Matthew Kerwin wrote: > On 16/11/2014, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> On 16/11/2014 07:34, Yoav Nir wrote: >>> >>> Imagine Wikipedia with nothing controversial: nothing about >>> abortions, religions, genetics, evolution… >> >> And that will not happen, so Wikipedia will simply ignore "safe", >> so browsers set to request "safe" will just get raw Wikipedia, so >> "safe" will be useless for parents wishing to censor their >> children's access to Wikipedia. >> > > This straw man serves as a handy informative illustration. > > Wikipedia doesn't (currently, or likely into the future) offer a > 'safe' option. > > Wikipedia doesn't offer a 'safe' option, so of course the hint > isn't for them, so of course they will ignore it. Us standardising > the preference doesn't suddenly force the entire web to present > safe/unsafe versions of everything. But creating a standard may very well mean there will be a time where they can't ignore it, and that concerns us. (this is the opposite of the non-adoption of p3p and PICS, in a sense) >> Thanks; this is a good illustration of why this whole thing is a >> pointless fig leaf. >> > > Once again, this hint is just a means of preempting the server's > question: "do you want safe mode?" The example that comes to mind > is Google's 'safe search', which I presume is the naming > phenotype. > > If they don't ask the question, they can ignore the answer. > > I wonder, again, if renaming it to "Prefer: x99-bob" would assuage > most peoples' concerns, at least had the renaming happened before > opinions were formed. I don't think that would make a bit of difference. ::) It would undoubtedly make it worse as people would use it for a myriad of other bit expressions and then it would be essentially meaningless, but standardized meaninglessness. best, Joe - -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Chief Technologist Center for Democracy & Technology 1634 I ST NW STE 1100 Washington DC 20006-4011 (p) 202-407-8825 (f) 202-637-0968 joe@xxxxxxx PGP: https://josephhall.org/gpg-key fingerprint: 3CA2 8D7B 9F6D DBD3 4B10 1607 5F86 6987 40A9 A871 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUa339AAoJEF+GaYdAqahxT98P/0q4ibWwEoH2earVEHgCi7hd tYgXhQzdVCKmikbYdwSJ2BCae6fN1MSlxdy7hcJAf+wubWNe9PQDw3aRgPSREaQn Wh5C7P0wg1iah+kgap3ZsTdICF5cfYn4CdqvDyU27WDSEoA0SVqeTMUa0sXMcqNB hw4my0KhOTlvvmG1AnYn6kAy0EwCQJc9yfB2BQdEd7phU8a/8mjZOTdvMkiGkydO LtpE1Ia/KvcqucMxjOmTpqlFxVlgr0O1dtdNPoo2jOsyIaCkiF2Iv1mz6QBL6fMK zWCoKkuD5/V68uFfAfCsvQGHZKqDksSVQXsL/pn3SiwXpIlZ7+dcaC4hItxkwi6B JTyQU4bXW7AkLbwaJVnQPYSRloHJ3t/5e2uMsKODP7NWVyQe9cbIaOq/JjncDvSR mgRXsQUtXwgnPzbb6YH7ZGhuCXz0991x9MhEH03cz0vI/zMHfYOFOdSgLM67Sx2u UZqImwHPOgIeL0KA8C4kXtNilrpDKhrgASNRucQlF6UI05xGbLsK2Nkjd1yNJ/ba /zfcDDiOj2j0ivs6EBsvrYcNsNQl+Fpi5LiuEKzLVuHmnU4PdeSc53z+5Rx1YMqo U9gfqcIL2r+KVYcs+FHXWYQPJgj46Gyl1gIkEnTuFoNY6ZZIx1np5DJ6ipmSAuAB IPPHfnRhpkiDYaFSvZez =KCKW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----