Tony Sidaway wrote:
Rebecca said:
I really think this comes down to an issue of accessibility. If we're aiming to build a large, open and accessible encyclopedia, then I don't think it helps that cause to effectively limit its readership to the most extremely liberal people on the planet - which rules out a vast amount of our potential readers and contributors.
There are no a priori access restrictions on Wikipedia. If the pictures offend you, don't download them.
But often a person has no way of knowing whether a picture will be offensive until he has seen it. We can only suggest that a picture *may* be offensive to some, perhaps with some offensiveness rating. That can still give the user the option to set his own tolerance level.
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