On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wikipedia this is called vandalism and trolling; and we *do* censor it
:)
No we don't and that is the whole point. We edit. We don't censor,
We remove & suppress such material. This is censoring the troll/vandals contribution.
I am sorry but you don't get to use a potential straw man and then defend it by redefining censorship of that material as "editing".
As it is I don't really get the context of the point you were trying to make. In the story is the teacher Wikipedia? In which case we *are* doing more to stop penis images. Or are you trying to show that because she could handle these apparently offensive images and still continue to confront you that the world at large should have the same attitude to Wikipedia?
Tom
Okay, We do not censor, because censorship is prior referral to a body to approve publication. We edit live, so a priori we don't censor. Very clear to anybody of a legal mind. We don't as a community suppress material, there have been attempts to do so, but they have all failed. We excercise editorial judgement where needed. Which is as it should be.