On 05/02/2008, Chris Howie <cdhowie(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What I'm saying is that if they don't want to
see those images then
they have a few options:
1. Turn off images in their browser.
My point is that in the general case, under for example, UK law, if
there are types of information that are contained in the wikipedia
that racial groups consider extremely obscene, which are impossible to
avoid in other than this way you indicate above, then this suggestion
amounts to racism. (The UK defines racism as anything that
intentionally or unintentionally has a significant negative effect on
a racial group; and while you may not be able to define Moslems as a
racial group, I expect you could find similar issues with actual
racial groups.)
I think that blocking all the images on the wikipedia meets that
criteria, and hence can be defined (at least in the UK definition,
which I would suppose would be notable) as racist.
2. Don't go to those pages.
That would be fair enough, provided it is easy to avoid.
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-Ian Woollard
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