[Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

[Ashwin Baindur]

We are going to have to live with this one, I think. There are very strong
views on Censorship abroad. For each culture finding the correct mix is
different. What is right for India may not be right for West. So imho we
need to care for giving more options in content rather than restrict with a
stricter view.

Anyway, if someone seriously wants porn there a zillion ways for him to get
it, I dont think Commons has much market share in this aspect.

Warm regards,

Ashwin Baindur
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On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Its your call "Commons Admins".
> There is some (hidden and very thin ) dividing line between porn and naked.
>
> I am told that in some Middleeast countries, where there are restrictions
> on webcontent, Wikipedia is also used by youngsters for porn/naked
> (whatever you feel correct) pictures/content.
>
> I don't have any knowledge of the previous threads. Its your(admins) call
> ultimately.
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And what you want us (Commons Admins) to do Sudhanwa? Delete all picture
>> with a naked person in it? That didn't go well the last time someone tryed
>> ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content/Archive_3).
>>
>> and btw, why just  nude people? Muhammed are forbidden by Muslins laws
>> and we have
>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Depictions_of_Muhammad (not
>> to mention that 2/3 of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Muhammed are
>> drawings and pictures) . Should we delete this too?
>> _____
>> *Béria Lima*
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>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> On 25 December 2011 17:16, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible to talk to "Blue Coat" and remove commons from their
>>> blacklist.
>>> btw, there are pictures on commons that can easily go in the porn
>>> category.
>>> Some serious admin work is needed there.
>>>
>>> -Sudhanwa
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
>>> parakara.ghoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So I spent the afternoon doing some research on this matter [on my
>>>> phone], and learnt that it isn't the network admin who has blocked the
>>>> site. The so called security software, Blue Coat, in this case, tags
>>>> the Commons as Media download site. So blocking sites in this
>>>> category, blocks Commons, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe, etc.
>>>> Similarily, there are some which categorise the Commons as
>>>> 'Pornography' ...
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan.
>>>> Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 13th.
>>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>>> Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll
>>>> Plaza.
>>>>
>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG
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