[Foundation-l] Minors and sexual explicit stuff

[Anthony]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:04 AM, David Moran <fordmadoxfraud at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is correspondingly true that there are many people who would more
> comfortably use, or let their children use, regular brick and mortar
> libraries if they could be sure that certain material had been removed from
> the building.  But typically libraries do not cater to people who ask that
> offensive books be removed, and I don't see any reason why Wikipedia is
> different.

I'm not sure what your library is like, but the situation at my
library is much more controlled than the one at Wikipedia.  Yes,
there's offensive material in it, and some of the offensive material
is in places where children have access, but it's nothing even
remotely approaching what's found in Wikipedia - in terms of how
graphic the material is, in terms of how easily accessible it is to
minors, in terms of the chances of encountering it accidentally, and
in terms of the use of children to decide whether or not to keep it.