On 05/02/2008, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
Not to mention the lack of an objective way to determine whether an image (or anything else) is "potentially-offending" enough that an otherwise reasonable person somewhere might want to opt out of it. It's not our place to make that decision for this or any other content.
Of *course* it's our place to make subjective editorial decisions on whether or not content is appropriate - where appropriate is a broadly-defined mixture of "acceptable", "useful", "well-placed", etc etc. We do it all the time, as a community and as individuals or ad-hoc groups. There's no 'Big Book of Encyclopedic Merit' we refer back to...
This just happens to be a case where it's easier to defend the status quo, and write off one side of the discussion as ideological, than it usually is!