--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Now this is not to say that there aren't other
arguments against linking
and in favor of inlining this sort of image. But I don't think this
argument that somehow linking is taking away choices is very compelling.
It seems clear to me that the opposite is true: linking gives people
the choice to view the image or not, in the simplest and most effective
way possible, without requiring the to know in advance that there might
be shocking images, without requiring them to change browser settings, etc.
Exactly. The opposite argument is absurd on its face. The only issue now is the
details: what to display by default and what to link by default. Being only a
semi-prude, I say simple nudity is almost always OK to display by default while
sex acts (both with oneself and with the help of others ) is almost always not
OK to display by default in articles (with the possible exception of good line
drawings).
-- mav
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