"Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com writes:
Someday, we plan to make the Wikipedia available on CD-ROM for schools and libraries that don't have T-1 lines (or the patience to tolerate the "lag" problem). It would be very useful to allow a parent or educator to filter out a few articles such as [[****-piercing]] or [[fisting]] or whatever.
Wikipedia is open content, the wikipedia software is open source. Any Library, university, school or whatever institution which wants a filtering system can develop one for itself.
I consider filtering or censuring articles on Wikipedia itself a blatant violation of its NPOV-policy.
Besides, entries about sexual "perversions" are found in "normal" encyclopedias as well, the parents in question would in logical consequence have to deny their children access to britannica, too.
I have no other encyclopedia to check at the moment, but I am almost sure to find more dangerous and misleading information in it than in wikipedia, where the articles in these areas were written by well informed and responsible practitioners.
greetings, elian