On 5/16/06, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
Be that as it may, don't we still have an ethical responsibility to do what we can to deter kids from coming across adult-meterial?
No. That is thier parents job. Parents will do it lovingly and responsibly. We would make a complete arse of it.
Not only that, but the various jurisdictions which Wikipedia serves pages to undoubtedly have different ideas about who is a child and who is an adult, and different ideas about what is "adult material". Attempting to institute a system of warnings or filters would undoubtedly leave holes, and that would arguably put us in a worse position than simply having the disclaimers and leaving everything up to users.
We should try to keep potentially offensive stuff off the main page, a fairly simple task. That gives every visitor the opportunity to read the disclaimers, and anything after that is their problem.