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

[David Goodman]

The argument against concealing or making it more difficult in any way
to access material is that it inevitably amounts to censorship. In my
youth, one could not receive publications--on any subject--through the
mail from the Communist countries without signing a form that one had
requested them; I remember doing this for photography magazines from
Poland. For adult web sites today, one must click, and the click is
recorded. Even though Wikipedia does not record views in an
attributable manner, a log on the computer used to access it could do
so.
Further, a person looking at a sexual image now can say if challenged
that it appeared by accident; if a setting had to be enabled, to see
them, that wouldn't be possible.


David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
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