--- Tony Sidaway minorityreport@bluebottle.com wrote:
Puddl Duk said:
Censorship and self-censorship are different words with different meanings.
Up to a point. Self-censorship is an action that can be performed by a single person or by a community. When the community performs the censorship, the end effect is that the community acts as an external person censoring the behavior of the individual. Again I emphasize that I have no problem with the word censorship. Censorship is necessary, especially if we are to comply with the law. Every time someone deletes those diaper pictures, they're censoring Wikipedia, and rightly so.
I agree with neccisity for self-censorship, based on the communities judgement. But haven't seen the need yet for outright censorship.
The diaper pictures is a good example. There have been several recent new user accounts that dumped a load of objectionalble material and left. No desire to write an encyclopedia. We have no speedy delete policy for these cases. I think this would help.
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