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

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Thu May 14 19:05:18 UTC 2009


2009/5/14 Chad <innocentkiller at gmail.com>:
> Or for enwiki to stop thinking themselves such fantastic editors
> and accept the notion that not all material is suitable for all ages.

I don't accept that notion. I fail to see how children are harmed by
such images. If we were to implement any kind of censorship it would
be to keep parents happy, not to protect children.

> A simple "this image may be inappropriate (show/show all from now on)"
> button would go a long way and would be ridiculously easy to implement.
> The hard part is convincing enwiki that they're not always right.

The technical implementation is easy, deciding which images to hide
like that is impossible.



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