[Foundation-l] Potential ICRA labels for Wikipedia

Mikemoral mikemoral.ml at gmail.com
Sun May 9 20:28:50 UTC 2010


By why censor Commons? Should educational material be freely viewed and,
of course, be made free to read, use, etc.

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:23 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 May 2010 21:17, Marcus Buck <me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:
>
> > The tags applied should be clear and fact-based. So instead of tagging a
> > page as "containing pornography", which is entirely subjective, we
> > should rather tag the page as "contains a depiction of an erect penis"
> > or "contains a depiction of oral intercourse".
>
>
> We can do this with the existing category system.
>
> The objection of the objectors will remain that the material is
> present at all. No system of categorisation will alleviate this
> concern - only actual censorship of Commons will.
>
>
> - d.



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