--- Jim Trodel trodel@gmail.com wrote:
I enjoyed your essay (and you may be surprised that I agree with most of it). Unfortunately it addresses an argument that I am not making:
No, your question is a subset of the greater question I answered: Can NPOV and Censorship abide in the same body of work?
Thanks for saying you enjoyed it. I went over it twice to remove egregious typos. ;)
... The question remains:
Why is the compromise, i.e. "To not include the image inline but make it accessible by a link" not considered reasonable?
Because unless all photos are shown through links, the ones that are will be "flagged", essentially singled out as potentially offensive to a group or groups. Should the Jack Daniels logo be linked then, seeing as it might be quite offensive to a billion muslims? This will only reinforce the notion that wikipedia editors are biased. And that's Not Good for our NPOV aims.
... Hopefully if such children get access to wikipedia they will find out about child slavery and support organizations that want to help them them get out of bondage. And even more hopefully, wikipedia will be part of spreading knowledge (and the associated freedom that comes from acting on knowledge) in such a way that 11 and 12 your old prostitutes don't exist.
Are you saying it's bad that 11 and 12 year old prostitutes exist? The practice had been around for thousands of years, is alive and well today, and will most likely go on for quite some time. Are you inserting a personal value judgment? On this list, fine. Keep it out of the WP though.
I am not saying what my morality dictates. It is not relevent to the creating of the encyclopedia.
... And what of the mistrust that comes from looking up a topic you have heard of and are not quite sure what it means (although you can guess) and immediately seeing a very graphic image.
There is a link. [[Autofellatio]]. There. Happy?
Want more images? Google them.
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