[WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...
Toby Bartels
toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu
Thu Jun 12 22:08:26 UTC 2003
LouI wrote:
>Toby Bartels wrote:
>>LittleDan wrote:
>>>That creates a paradox. Any one scheme for censorship (or even flagging) is
>>>POV, while a lack of one is also POV. We're stuck. So let's choose the choice
>>>which will broaden our audience the most: flagging built into the software.
>>Failing to categorify content is POV???
>>Where's the bias?
>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.
It would be ... if Wikipedia were in the business of educating children.
>This is a very slippery kind of concept, sort of like the
>difference between 'freedom OF religion' and 'freedom FROM religion'.
I don't understand the analogy;
it might help if I knew your opinion on freedom from religion,
since as it is I can't even tell which way you go on that!
-- Toby
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