[Foundation-l] PG rating

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:30 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> John Vandenberg wrote:
>> I think you might be more interested in looking at the same question
>> from another perspective.
>>
>> Are there any encyclopedia which have been
>> classified/banned/bowlderised by any country in the last 50 years?
>>
>> If Wikipedia is a quality encyclopedia, most rating agencies would
>> decide that the content is appropriate for all ages.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_PRC
>
> Is this a trick question?

That is Wikipedia being banned.  Are there other, real paper,
published encyclopedia that have been banned or classified?  I expect
the answer to be yes, and I hope it is only repressive regimes which
have done this.

If other encyclopedia have been banned, are we in good company?

If we are the only encyclopedia to have been banned, perhaps our
content is inappropriately explicit, and we could replace this
wikipedia image filter with some editorial self-control.

-- 
John Vandenberg