On 19 September 2011 15:50, Fae fae@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
All of these would be problematic; if these were the default criteria for a school to enforce on their pupils when using school computers, one could imagine images of many 18th century paintings or depictions of gods being excluded due to "nude female breasts" and one would have to exclude all photographs of ancient Egyptian mummies as they were all "mutilated" as part of the process for embalming.
How much is "mutilated"? A scratch? Ten scratches? A hundred scratches? St Sebastian? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sebastia.jpg
This is what I mean by "magical categories". "I know it when I see it" isn't enough. "Lots of us know it when we see it" is a blatant neutrality violation.
You need to be able to answer these sort of questions if you advocate a filtering system involving any assessment of image content.
- d.