[Foundation-l] Censorship: Speedy deletion of porn articles

geni geniice at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 23:19:57 UTC 2007


On 3/8/07, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> Or how about:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Lynde
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Sargent
>
> I guess its OK to "out" them since they are deceased now -- doesn't
> matter what impact it might
> have on their children or grandchildren? This is my point.
>

Why should it have an impact?

> Or this one is a great one. Look at the disputed tag "Categorization of
> People"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gay_actors
>
> This is a far from NPOV in my culture as you can get. So where are the
> "Heterosexual Actors" category, or are they
> in the group "if you have not been labeled with our POV labels, you are
> hetero".

No one is interested in makeing lists of hetrosexual actors.

It isn't POV to describe say Ian McKellen as gay.

-- 
geni



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