"Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger has launched a campaign against the
online encyclopedia for content filters to be put in place."
Part of being a reference work. There are aspects of reality that are
offensive or disturbing. I think we've made considerable progress on this
matter in terms of removing or offering tools to prevent surprising
people with gratuitous salacious material, but a refractory remnant of
simple fact will always remain a part of Wikipedia. Some of it very
important information even for children.
Fred
On 10 September 2012 19:51, Steve Summit
<scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
>
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/10/wikipedia-slow-to-filter-graphic-ima…
>
> "Wikipedia has turned down a more or less free offer for software
> that would keep minors and unsuspecting web surfers from
> stumbling upon graphic images of sex organs, acts and emissions,
>
FoxNews.com has learned -- sexually explicit images that remain
> far and away the most popular items on the company's servers."
>
> Funny, I didn't realize we (or commons, which is what they're
> really talking about) were a porn site, but I guess they wouldn't
> print it if it wasn't true...