--- Rebecca misfitgirl@gmail.com wrote:
I think it's perfectly reasonable to want to read about a sexual
or
otherwise explicit subject without seeing explicit images of it.
I am
quite interested to know what exactly autofellatio is, if it
really is
possible and what proportion of the population are able - but I'm
really
not interested in seeing an image of it. And if I am, I'll turn
of
safe-search on google and search for images there.
The argument that I can turn off images on my browser seems a bad
one to
me - for a start, many people don't know how to do this (never underestimate the non-techyness of the general user). It's also inconvenient to have to switch images on and off for different
pages
(especially as I use tabs). And for the general reader, why
would they
/expect/ to have to turn images off when reading a general
encyclopaedia?
--sannse
Thank you, sannse.
Really, I think we could do with some intervention from Jimbo on this issue. I'm a rabid leftie, and one reason I chose to study law was because I detest censorship. Yet, at the same time, I utterly refuse to have to put vile censorship software on my own computer to avoid seeing inline what shouldn't be there in the first place. I could really care less about some of the more minor ones, such as [[Clitoris]], but I'm on record as saying that the day [[Goatse]] and similar articles receive according pictures is the day that I leave Wikipedia and demand that every trace of my involvement on this site be removed. I love this site, but I would no longer want to be personally associated with such a place.
-- ambi
Calm down ambi. You of all people should not get upset about all this, since this is your field of professional study.
Besides you home page, you may not demand that all traces of your involvment be removed. You willfully released your contributions in the GNU Free Documentation License. It's out of your hands. You should have thought about that before contributing. (It's at the bottom of every edit page, and you are a law student after all).
Stomping you foot may work in a bar with cute guys. Most of use are neither cute or in a bar.
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