[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not the Karma Sutra, was Re: commons and freely licensed sexual imagery

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu May 14 18:53:45 UTC 2009


2009/5/14 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:

> So is my cookbook censored because it doesn't include a description of
> the Peloponnesian War? Of course not. It's not a matter of censorship,
> it's a matter of scope. If you wish to argue that pearl necklaces
> aren't encyclopaedic, then that is another question entirely and the
> answer should not be based on people being offended by images of them.


Yes. Editing is censoring, therefore there is no such separate thing
as censoring, therefore the decision to put a picture on
[[Autofellatio]] (WARNING: contains photograph) is an editorial
decision. Which it in fact was.


- d.



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