Bryan Derksen wrote:
Before we massively change things one way or the other, we should consider that the way things work is already pretty darn good. It's a compromise that's been hammered out over years of time and the efforts of thousands of participants pushing in various different ways.
Point well taken.
What's troubling is that lots and lots of not egregiously infringing nonfree images, uploaded and integrated over years of time by thousands of participants, and hitherto accepted under those hammered-out compromises, seem to have disappeared over the past couple of months (due to the efforts of just a few).