Re: [Social-discuss] Control own privacy, posted by _others_

[Jason Self]

Matija Šuklje <address@hidden> wrote ..
> Another problem with existing social networking sites that I see
> increasing lately is that people are maintaining their accounts and log in
> regularly just to make sure no-one posted anything about them that they
> don't agree with (e.g. party photos).
>
> I propose that GNU Social has a option where the everyone would have the
> option to decide whether they want to approve of something publicly posted
> about them or not.
>
> This could be done by e.g. having in the settings an option that would
> say:
>
> Whenever someone tags something (e.g. a photo) with my name on it or posts
> something on my page/"wall"[1] I want:
> [] not to be bothered about it.
> [] to be informed that it happened, so I can check it out and approve or
> disapprove of it.
> [] to be informed about it and that it is not posted until I have approved
> of it.
>
> Perhaps we could also implement a way to offer the user to make the photo
> or data anonymous — e.g. if just one person has disagreed with a group
> photo, there could be a system to just blur out that person's face and
> remove his name tag from the photo.
>
> What do you think about it?

Makes me think of censorship. "They can't say things that involve me unless I
approve of it." I don't think GNU Social should go there.