At 01:20 PM 5/18/03 -0700, LittleDan wrote:
--- Vicki Rosenzweig vr@redbird.org wrote:
At 09:49 AM 5/18/03 -0700, LittleDan wrote:
I wrote:
[ ] Censor inapropriate content
But I meant
[ ] Censor obscene content
or
[ ] Censor content that may be considered
obscene.
"Content that may be considered obscene" is incredibly wide, depending on who is doing the considering: diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, for example. Two people of the same gender kissing. A woman nursing a baby. The bare human calf used to be considered shocking and provocative. -- Vicki Rosenzweig vr@redbird.org http://www.redbird.org
I hate to say this, but you know what I mean.
No, I don't know what you mean. "Obscene" is not a well-defined category in the first place and, more to the point, *obscene according to what standards*? The server is in California, but will users understand the differences between the standards of that state's law and of wherever they happen to be?
The breast cancer example is one of the things that is routinely blocked by censorware designed to "protect" users from obscene material.