[WikiEN-l] Potentially offensive pictures
Delirium
delirium at rufus.d2g.com
Sun Jan 11 01:25:32 UTC 2004
Christopher Mahan wrote:
>On the whole discussion on pictures:
>
>What about pictures of:
> Dead, bloody people (common on european TV)
> Drug paraphenalia
> Step by step bomb making
> Dangerous animals
> Deformed lifeforms from genetic experiments
> Injured people from combat (limbs tangled, guts spilled, heads
>disfigured)
> Medical pictures of diseased bodypart
> Election proceedings (hello PRC)
> War crimes (remember the photo of the US officer executing a
>vietnamese during the vietnam war?)
> Sexual acts, such as penetration, arousal, nipple clamps, bondage,
>etc.
> Domestic violence
> Aborted Foetuses
>
>
Of the ones you cited, I think the great majority should be included
with "click here for a photo of [blah]", not inline in articles. I do
not generally want to see a graphic picture of an aborted fetus even if
I am reading an article on abortion; if I wish to do so, I am quite
capable of clicking on the link to display the image. I see no benefit
to forcing our readers to see images they may not wish to see based on a
highly POV claim that they are "normal" images that they should not be
offended by.
-Mark
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