In other words, children should be denied access to the internet unless their parents choose to expose them to degeneracy? But that is not our question. Obviously a user of Wikipedia may be occasionally exposed to material which is inserted as vandalism. The question is whether, after due consideration, objectionable material is to be included as an accepted part of our presentation of knowledge.
Fred
From: "Tony Sidaway" minorityreport@bluebottle.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:47:08 -0000 (GMT) To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently classroom-safe
Arno M said:
"Parents and school administrators and especially in the United States, local school boards. A teacher who allows their students free access to Wikipedia is a fool."
A similar question involves minors accessing it at home or in some public library that bans access to sexually explicit sites.
In my opinion, Public libraries should not permit unsupervised minors to use the internet unless their parents first, being properly informed as to the nature of the internet, knowingly and explicitly give the library permission to do so.
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