[Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

[Thomas Dalton]

On 29 September 2011 22:46, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 September 2011 06:41, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://suegardner.org/2011/09/28/on-editorial-judgment-and-empathy/
>> Pretty sound blog, no matter which position you take.  Naturally, please
>> discuss the blog on the blog and not thread this too much back to
>> conversation about the image filter.
>
>
> The trouble with responding on the blog is that responses seem to be
> being arbitrarily filtered, e.g. mine.

Really? What did you say?

> So here's one that's particularly apposite:
>
> http://achimraschka.blogspot.com/2011/09/story-about-vulva-picture-open-letter.html
>
> He's the primary author of [[:de:Vulva]], and Sue called him all
> manner of names ("who are acting like provocateurs and agitators" that
> "need to be stopped"), but never ... actually ... contacted him to say
> any of this *to* him. Oh, and he's a member of the board of WMDE.

I don't think Sue necessarily meant Achim. For one thing, I don't
think she objects to the article. It's the article (and, in
particular, the picture) being on the front page that she thought
unwise. Was he the one to make that decision? As I understand it, it
was a general consensus of the community. That makes it very difficult
to pick out certain individuals to criticise, so I don't think you can
guess which, if any, individuals Sue had in mind when she wrote that.