[Foundation-l] On curiosity, cats and scapegoats

[Andre Engels]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:


> Can you help me in understanding in why such a user control feature may
> possibly bring more people to Wikipedia?


By giving people who do not want to run the risk of seeing certain images
that they disagree with one less reason to _not_ go to Wikipedia.


> I am especially interested in
> countries where access to information is restricted by the environment,
> for example by governments, whether the same reasoning applies to them
> as to less restrictive regions.
>

Probably, although there might be additional cases where they want to block
images, not because they themselves disagree with them, but because
possession on their computer might be illegal for them.


> I am asking this because I happened to grow up and have first 8 years
> of my education in such an environment and I still remember those times
> and how we approached the limited access to information.
>

What was that approach and why does it have to do with the issue at hand? I
don't suppose that you approached it by shying away from any source of
information that offered you the option of either getting everything you
were still allowed or voluntarily constricting yourself even further.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com