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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Children in Romania know what to expect of a
pizdă<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pizd%C4%83#Romanian>,
children in Indonesia know it for the
tempik<http://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=tempik&action=edit&redlink=1>..
They are both descriptive and you do not know at all that you want to
look for them

Truly the notion that the description will tell you that something is not
safe for wok is naive. It is also naive to use it for setting up a web
blocker. Trust me, kids are quite capable to find their way around such
silly toys because they have more incentive to do so then you have to set up
something like a web blocker.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On 26 July 2010 19:17, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> <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>
> <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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