[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.

[Fred Bauder]

Pictures of the clitoris are not displayed to avoid pandering to purient
interests which apparently (I have not followed this debate) outweighs the
information value.

While there may be a few readers who might enjoy pictures of torture and
putting many of them on Wikipedia would be wrong there is such a strong
history of people lying about torture that we would not want to part of
suppression of evidence. Thus there is a very high information value. (We
finally caught a few of these sonsabitches). There is a point of view
problem as 99.9% of torture is not photographed thus displaying pictures of
American torture only (as pictures of Saudi Arabian or Israeli or Turkish or
Tibetan or [put in your own despotic regime] torture are not available)
gives a somewhat false impression. It takes a pretty dumb criminal to take
pictures (or let others take pictures) of themselves while they are
committing a crime.

Fred

> From: Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: anthere9 at yahoo.com, English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 02:51:44 +0200
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.
> 
> We censor pictures of clitoris on the english wikipedia.
> We censor clitoris pictures, while billion of humans on Earth have a
> clitoris, and that is something perfectly normal to have.
> 
> We censor clitoris for the motive that people could be shocked.
> 
> However, we do not censor pictures of torture and humiliation. Forgive
> me, but I am troubled.
> 
> No, I do not think everything should be shown, especially soon after
> they happen. Just as some criminal trials of WWII horors were recorded,
> but the records preserved for several years before being shown publicly.
> This in memory of the deads. Even though we know what happened.
> 
> So, explain to me why we show shocking images of human humiliation,
> while we cant display clitoris, because chaste eyes would be shocked ?
> 
> 
> Fred Bauder a écrit:
>> They belong. If they allowed picture taking at the Colorado State
>> Penitentiary or in a prison in France they would belong too. Their
>> importance is that most torture in prisons happens without pictures being
>> taken. These pictures have to stand in place of the hundreds or even
>> thousands of similar situations that don't get recorded. Or is that too
>> creative?
>> 
>> Fred
> 
> 
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