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

[Ted Smith]

I agree. We shouldn't try to find technical solutions to social problems.

"Jason Self" <address@hidden> wrote:

>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.

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