[Foundation-l] Discussion Questions for Potentially-Objectionable Content

[Oliver Keyes]

Wikipedia images and pages normally have descriptive titles. If you want to
prevent children seeing bad stuff on the internet, set up a web blocker.
Mind you, if you want to prevent children seeing bad stuff on the internet,
best to raise them in an Amish village.

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:

> A child seeing such a page will ordinarily go instead to something
> they understand.  Unless we're talking about teen-agers.
> I see this as an excellent example of the slippery slope we would be
> in if we did anything targeted at facilitating censorship, especially
> considering the author of the book is a major writer. There are some
> elements of these themes in some of his other work also. Do we label
> them as well?
>
> The only sustainable position is that readers can do what they want
> with our content. If they can derive a filter for what hey want . (I
> don't see how they can for a novel except by putting it specifically
> on a blacklist)
>
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 2:54 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 25 July 2010 18:17, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> You're right, it is not just about images. If I set up a censored
> account for a small child, I should be able to set it up in such a way that
> they won't be able to see articles like
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogg_(novel)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogg_%28novel%29>or
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture_(sexual_practice)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cock_and_ball_torture_%28sexual_practice%29>
> >>
> >> So, if the child clicks on a wikilink leading there, they would get a
> screen saying, "Sorry, >this page is only available to adult accounts."
> >
> > Child responds by logging out.
> >
> >
> >
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