Steve Callaway wrote:
This is a very dangerous area indeed and a seriously slippery slope. I can see the arguments for it but the obverse side of this coin is that if it's possible to introduce sexual censorship in this way it is entirely conceivable that political censorship could be attained by a similar mechanism. This is NOT a genie to be let out of the bottle. There is enough political and social hypocrisy and outright political propaganda in the corpus of Wikipedia already without introducing convenient new mechanisms for the thought & ideas police.
Are you saying that Wikipedia should be designed to make it difficult for parents or guardians to exercise their responsibility in the oversight of minors' education?
This seems rather radical and beyond the scope of an encyclopedia project even if it is intended as an educational resource.
Most societies that I am aware of implicitly place at least some responsibility for controlling access to information for irresponsible persons (a juvenile is not a responsible adult or citizen in my opinion, although increasingly U.S. courts attempt to claim they are at random whim of proscutors) upon their responsible guardian.
Regards, Mike Irwin