[WikiEN-l] WikiProject Decency

[Laura Scudder]

On 8/17/05, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
> Namely, if the English Wiki servers are hosted in a U.S. state, then
> the site does, if I am not mistaken, fall under various laws about the
> distribution of "obscene" images to minors. "Obscene" is of course a
> subject term, in the legal realm as well as here, but there is some
> precedent which could allow one to make such decisions.
> 

See [[Miller test]].  Wikipedia would fail to meet the definition of
obscene in the U.S. no matter what specific images we host due to the
third critera: "the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary,
artistic, political, or scientific value."

Laurascudder