[Foundation-l] Minors and sexual explicit stuff

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 18:28:29 UTC 2009


2009/11/17 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> 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.

You never flicked through the photography or modern art section. Sure
my library didn't have any of Robert Mapplethorpe's work but it had
some fairly explicit stuff. That said I think the winner in that sense
was one of the art books my school held.

-- 
geni



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