[Foundation-l] video presentation on explicit images on WMF projects

Mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 18:12:00 UTC 2010


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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> 2010/1/14 David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
> 
>> As for the link, showing these in greatly enlarged  versions, without
>> the context of the articles in which they are used, is setting up a
>> strong bias. We've never engaged in that use of the material, nor
>> would we. If people want to take our material out of our encyclopedic
>> content and turn it into sexually-focused presentations, that is their
>> look-out.
> 
> 
> Indeed. The video basically comes across as a threat to try to drum up
> a moral panic against Wikimedia.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> 

That's because it is exactly that.

- -Mike
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