On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To some of those people, and to others, trying to place restrictions of any
sort of sexually explicit images is cultural relativism and censorship. To
me, but maybe not to you, it is simply being responsible.
Re-reading myself, cultural relativism is not the correct description. If
anything, its decried most often as moral absolutism or an assertion of
cultural superiority. Obviously I disagree with that view. The way I see it,
we as members of the Wikimedia community have a responsibility to not do
harm. This principle, in a necessarily nuanced form, is embodied in the
English Wikipedia policy governing biographies of living people - and it is
past time that the core ideal of taking steps to protect others from being
hurt by our work is extended to images.
Nathan
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