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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
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<A title=littledanehren@yahoo.com
href="mailto:littledanehren@yahoo.com">Daniel Ehrenberg</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wikien-l@wikipedia.org
href="mailto:wikien-l@wikipedia.org">wikien-l@wikipedia.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 09, 2003 7:04 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Filtering,
etc.</DIV>
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<DIV>Did you ever show your mother Bomis? That really is
pornography.<BR><BR><B><I>Jimmy Wales <<A
href="mailto:jwales@bomis.com">jwales@bomis.com</A>></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE
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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 p! romising<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
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