<DIV>Did you ever show your mother Bomis? That really is pornography.<BR><BR><B><I>Jimmy Wales <jwales@bomis.com></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Dante Alighieri wrote:<BR>> I'm sorry, but if other people want to censor information from themselves <BR>> and children in their charge, that's /their/ problem, not ours. I don't see <BR>> why we need to be held hostage to the Puritanical views of a few people out <BR>> there who think that it would somehow be a disaster if a child read the <BR>> felching article. Why do their work for them? If they want a filter, let <BR>> /them/ write it. Let /them/ argue what it should filter. Let's leave <BR>> Wikipedia just the way it is.<BR><BR>In what we are we held hostage just by including content metadata and<BR>allowing people a simple option for how they want to view the<BR>wikipedia? I think such dramatic analogies would be appropriate if<BR>our only possible course of actions were to either self-censor or let<BR>it all hang out, but it seems to me that we have several promising<BR>alternatives that pose a useful compromise.<BR><BR>Again, I ask you to think not of schools and their issues, but of me<BR>and my issues. I'm a modern person offended by almost nothing. And<BR>yet, I wouldn't like to be showing my mother wikipedia and say, o.k.,<BR>here is how you edit, and over here is where people can see the recent<BR>changes, and OH MY!!, er, well, uh, really, this isn't about porn, ma.<BR><BR>--Jimbo<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>WikiEN-l mailing list<BR>WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org<BR>http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><p><hr SIZE=1>
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