On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:24, Theo10011 de10011@gmail.com wrote:
Bishakha, call it editorial-content, call it censorship or any other euphemism - at the heart of it, it is deciding what someone gets to see and what not. It should not be our job to censor our own content. The strongest argument I read against this has been - it is not something WMF and the board should implement and develop, If there was a need to censor/cleanse graphic content, there would a successful mirror or a fork of the project already somewhere.
That argument is all too convenient.
The WMF shouldn't do X because nobody else has successfully done X.
And the only reason nobody else has done X successfully is because they don't *really* want it.
(Not because they actually do want it but don't have the resources. Not because it is hard for an external body to do but might be easier for the WMF to do. No, those aren't possible at all.)
A slight reductio ad absurdum of the argument:
In 2001, Jimmy and Larry and Ben Kovitz are sitting around deciding whether to install wiki software. One of them remarks "well, if someone really wanted a wiki-based encyclopedia, they would have done it already." Following this impeccable logic, they decide that it's probably not something anybody wants, and continue pressing on with Nupedia...