On 21/02/2008, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
Thomas Dalton schrieb:
On 21/02/2008, The Mangoe the.mangoe@gmail.com wrote:
As long as the two sacred principles of "No pictures!" and "Not censored!" stand in rigid opposition to each other, the conflict will continue. The "show" solution (with an appropriate note) or even putting all the images on the "depictions" page (again, with a prominent note) seem like reasonable solutions. As far as the "depictions" article is concerned, I can't see how that article can exist without images.
I've yet to see anyone seriously address to issue of how to decide which images to hide and which not to.
If there is an internet petition with 200.000 signatures against an image, I'd say, that it is a good candidate, don't you think?
Why would a petition containing X number of signatures sway us one way or another about our content? Religious lobby groups quickly put great numbers behind petitions and letter writing campaigns. That a group of 200 000 were convinced to sign a petition doesn't necessarily mean very much.
When Jerry Springer: The Opera offended some Catholics' sense of absolute control over of the concepts "God", "Jesus", "heaven", and "hell", a letter writing campaign was organised against the BBC. Most of the letters looked the same, so the fact that there were thousands of complaints means very little. The BBC aired the opera anyway, despite receiving more complaints than ever before (on any issue).