[WikiEN-l] Re: Filtering, etc.

[Dante Alighieri]

At 06:16 AM 6/9/2003, you wrote:
>Dante Alighieri wrote:
> > I'm sorry, but if other people want to censor information from themselves
> > and children in their charge, that's /their/ problem, not ours. I don't 
> see
> > why we need to be held hostage to the Puritanical views of a few people 
> out
> > there who think that it would somehow be a disaster if a child read the
> > felching article. Why do their work for them? If they want a filter, let
> > /them/ write it. Let /them/ argue what it should filter. Let's leave
> > Wikipedia just the way it is.
>
>In what we are we held hostage just by including content metadata and
>allowing people a simple option for how they want to view the
>wikipedia?  I think such dramatic analogies would be appropriate if
>our only possible course of actions were to either self-censor or let
>it all hang out, but it seems to me that we have several promising
>alternatives that pose a useful compromise.
>
>Again, I ask you to think not of schools and their issues, but of me
>and my issues.  I'm a modern person offended by almost nothing.  And
>yet, I wouldn't like to be showing my mother wikipedia and say, o.k.,
>here is how you edit, and over here is where people can see the recent
>changes, and OH MY!!, er, well, uh, really, this isn't about porn, ma.

Well, I'm making a straight slippery slope argument. The first step is of 
course, reasonable, it's the eighth step that worries me.


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Dante Alighieri
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    -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321