On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Raphael Wegmann raphael@psi.co.at wrote:
Thank you Andrew for your effort. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like any of those zealots is willing to compromise. Appeasing the no-censorship fundamentalists looks like mission impossible.
I don't believe we have to make a concession to censorship to show that we are thinking about what we are doing. Reasonable people may disagree. I have thought about my viewpoint at length. I think the general population sees our decision not to censor Wikipedia not as an indication that we haven't thought about the issue, but that we have, and that we have come to the right conclusion. This is reflected in general talk on the internet, and emails sent to otrs.
Calling us zealots and fundamentalists gets us no where. We might be able to reach a compromise, but it's not going to be conceding 100% to what the anonymous web petition wants. Maybe we could educate people in how to hide images themselves. Most modern browsers support this. You probably wouldn't have much opposition in a purely educational stance.