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

[Ray Saintonge]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>Toby Bartels wrote:
>
>>If you spell it out in such a way that it includes explicity sexual
>>content but not explicit religious content, then how is this NPOV,
>>given an earlier poster (Ec?) that considers the latter harmful to
>>kids.  (And if Ec is joking, I have a friend that seriously believes
>>that about Christianity in particular.)
>>
>
>End users can adjust it however they like, so what's the problem?
>
I think both Erik and I had made suggestions of that sort.  I am not a 
rabid advocate of censorship, and I don't believe that he is either.  I 
also agree that any such censorship would be applied '''only''' at the 
end user level.

The visions which Erik and I were expressing were technically very 
different in the way they would function, but probably very similar in 
what they would accomplish.  The capacity of these systems for 
censorship is secondary and incidental.  They would work just as well if 
a person wanted to censor out articles about nuclear physics or ancient 
Egyptian history, or some other subject that would leave all the rest of 
us scratcuing our heads.  To me the real issue is about scaling up and 
indexing in a project that is growing tremendously fast.

In my particular vision of coding the end user would simply have the 
opportunity to not download articles coded for sex, religion or knitting..

Ec