[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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