[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status - the image filter disguised under a new label

[Andreas Kolbe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=20&redirs=0&profile=images&search=male+human


So unless I want to see 100 dicks and arseholes I am somehow against *
knowledge*?

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=20&redirs=0&profile=images&search=male+human<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=20&redirs=0&profile=images&search=male+human>


You got this the wrong way round, mate. All those pictures of dicks and
arseholes are preventing people from learning what they might want to
learn, because actual worthwhile knowledge is crowded out by all the dicks
and arseholes.

There is more things to learn about the human male than that it has a dick
and an arsehole. If I have to wade through 100 photographs of Wikimedians'
dicks and arseholes to find
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Study_of_a_Male_Figure_Seen..._-_Sir_Peter_Paul_Rubens.png
then
perhaps we have our priorities slightly back to front.

Contrary to what some Wikimedians seem to think, what their dicks and
arseholes look like from a distance of 30 centimetres is not the most
important piece of knowledge to share with the world.

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:07 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 12 March 2012 12:28, Richard Symonds
> <richard.symonds at wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > deepest parts of the US bible belt, and areas such as Pakistan and India,
> > which have sizeable English-speaking populations and a very strong
> religious
> > vein. With such a diverse worldwide readership on one language, it is
> only
> > natural that people from the bible belt /do/ have a say in whether or not
> > having an image filter is appropriate. We owe it to these people to make
> > sure that Wikipedia is not blocked in their countries.
>
>
> You're describing places in terms of fundamentally rejecting the
> Enlightenment. General encyclopedias, starting from l'Encyclopedie,
> are an Enlightenment project. Ultimately, we can't cripple Wikipedia
> for the world because some parts of it are not happy with the idea of
> people being allowed to know stuff in general.
>
>
> - d.
>
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