[WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...

[Brion Vibber]

limholt at excite.com wrote:

>LittleDan wrote:<br><br>>>That creates a paradox. Any one scheme for censorship (or even flagging) is<br>>>POV, while a lack of one is also POV. We're stuck. So let's choose the choice<br>>>which will broaden our audience the most: flagging built into the software.<br><br>
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>Toby Bartels wrote:<br><br>>Failing to categorify content is POV???<br>>Where's the bias?<br><br><br>-- 
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>I accept Dan's point. The idea that all types of material MUST be available without filtering (py parents for example) is a POV about how children should be educated. This is a very slippery kind of concept, sort of like the difference between 'freedom OF religion' and 'freedom FROM religion.
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Close, but not quite.

The point of view is *not* that children should be educated in 
such-and-such a way, but rather that people who want to be restrictive 
about the material that people (not necessarily just children!) have 
access to should set up those restrictions *themselves*; that it is not 
part of Wikipedia's mission to censor material about certain topics, but 
that our license allows anyone who wishes to to create a derivitive work 
which is more limited in scope and more targeted in audience.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)