[Foundation-l] Minors and sexual explicit stuff

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 16:00:06 UTC 2009


Clearly, Wikipedia causes teenage pregnancy. Why is anyone disputing that
point?

SAFE SEX = NO WIKIPEDIA

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:04 AM, David Moran <fordmadoxfraud at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It is correspondingly true that there are many people who would more
> > comfortably use, or let their children use, regular brick and mortar
> > libraries if they could be sure that certain material had been removed
> from
> > the building.  But typically libraries do not cater to people who ask
> that
> > offensive books be removed, and I don't see any reason why Wikipedia is
> > different.
>
> I'm not sure what your library is like, but the situation at my
> library is much more controlled than the one at Wikipedia.  Yes,
> there's offensive material in it, and some of the offensive material
> is in places where children have access, but it's nothing even
> remotely approaching what's found in Wikipedia - in terms of how
> graphic the material is, in terms of how easily accessible it is to
> minors, in terms of the chances of encountering it accidentally, and
> in terms of the use of children to decide whether or not to keep it.
>
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