You can't censor what you don't know about. This picture got attention because it was noticed. When someone notices the other stuff, they'll make an issue of that. The picture is obviously of questionable taste, where and how people draw lines seems to be very arbitrary. I am a far right wing conservative. To me, a picture that exposes anything above a woman's knee, elbow, lower then her neck, etc. is pornography. On the far left side we have active pedophiles that see nothing wrong with using a child for any purpose that brings them sexual stimulus. Then you have the middle people who seem to change every day and every year. They don't have values and they follow the Supreme Court Justice remarks who sad, "I can't define pornography with words, but I know it when I see it."
Certainly someone should have objected to the photo when it was first placed on the album cover; questioned the photographer, printer, music label and girl's parents. Apparently that didn't happen, so now they resort to this.
---Mike
-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Isabell Long Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:56 PM To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] UK Censorship
I do see why they have censored it, it could have been offensive in some way to certain people, but I think that there are many more potentially offensive things on en.wikipedia than that. Fair enough, I possibly shouldn't argue this because I haven't heard the full story, but that is just my view.
Isabell.