--- Jimmy Wales jwales@bomis.com wrote:
Richard Grevers wrote:
I don't - although if their inclusion results in W
being banned from
schools etc then it becomes debatable as to
whether inclusion is in
Wikipedia's best interests.
I think that's right. And I think LittleDan's concerns are legitimate, quite apart from any questions of censorship. The question is: how do we present information that's potentially "hot" in a fashion that's NPOV and educational and tasteful, and in the case in point, would a drawing be better than a photo?
I have certainly in my day seen photos of genetalia that were tasteful and "medical", as well as photos that were tasteless, as well as photos that were tasteful and erotic. As with any form of expression, there's a thoughtful and responsible way to express what we want to express, and we should do that.
Well in the "free" United States since recent
regulations, if someone
posted information that certain agencies decided
were an aid to terrorists,
could not those agencies arrest Jimbo for refusing
to disclose information
on the user who posted it?
Not that it's really relevant right now, but I take the very rare position among libertarians of finding that the Patriot Act provisions that you're referring to are not nearly as draconian as most media outlets and civil libertarins make them out to be. It's not a good law, but the changes that it made are much less than most people realize.
I'll post more about this if people are interested.
--Jimbo
I'm interested
Even before the USAPA (USA Patriot Act), the US government could still require people to disclose information to the government if they had significant proof that it would solve a pending case and a judge certified this. The USAPA effectly removed this requisite, instead replacing it with that if the government suspected someone to be a terrorist (under the definition someone planning to destroy property), a judge would be _forced_ to sign that they can search. Also, with the USAPA, the government is automatically authorised to search _all_ of wikipedia even if the search warrant only authorises one part of it. --LittleDan
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