[Foundation-l] Another board member statement

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

stevertigo wrote:
> Kat Walsh <kat at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>   
>> "Commons should not be a host for media that has very
>> little informational or educational value
>>     
>
> This is too broad. Confine the scope toward dealing with what does not
> belong, rather than trying to suggest that everything be purposed as
> stated above. "Prurient" and "exhibitionist" are terms which seem to
> adequately define what doesn't belong.
>
>   
Sadly, no. Apparently Jimbo had a difficulty with discerning
"Prurient" from "state of the art", which during the era
of the Decadent Movement, was pretty racy.

Similarly, currently there is a suggestion that contemporary
art that is mildly transgressive in nature, such as the
Femina Potens organisation in San Francisco is just beyond
the pale (which has always in art been the definition of
transgressive), and thus BDSM, not art, by the standards
of the most puritan influences on Commons.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen