[Foundation-l] "Filtering" ourselves is pointless

[David Levy]

David Gerard wrote:

> Despite Content Purge, Pornographic Images Remain on Wikimedia
> By Jana Winter
> http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/05/10/porn-wikipedia-illegal-content-remains/
>
>
> Any attempt to "filter" ourselves is not addressing the fact that the
> images exist at all on Commons.
>
> Any attempted appeasement of these vicious morons was and is
> counterproductive at best. Fox News is best aggressively ignored from
> now on and given similar cooperation to the Register.

Agreed.  As some predicted, Fox News has cited Jimbo's actions as
validation that its earlier claims were correct.  And because any
"graphic images" remain, this means that we're aware of an egregious
problem and have made only a token effort to address it.

Essentially, we've gone from alleged smut peddlers pleading our
innocence to self-acknowledged smut peddlers flaunting our guilt.

It was an enormous mistake to respond to this "news" organization as
though it possessed a shred of credibility or integrity.

David Levy