On 4/9/06, Philip Welch wikipedia@philwelch.net wrote:
We don't need to make a policy because of this single specific case, because we're not deluged by child pornography. If this case recurs, then we can deal with it the same way we dealt with this one. When mass uploads of child porn take place, then and only then should we develop policy.
Precisely. This is a case that had been festering for well over a year until someone dealt with it, and now that it's happened nobody seems to be mad keen to restore the picture, so it seems apparent to me that all that was missing was a bit of guts.
We really haven't got a child porn problem, and if at some point we ever should, we could then develop a policy on the basis of a spread of different cases about which we could reach a reasonable agreement.