[Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

[Sarah Stierch]

I was on Commons and stumbled across a photograph of a man cumming onto a
cracker and then eating it. Turns out this is called a "soggy biscuit." You
learn something new everyday.

In the heat of annoyance about "WP:NOTCENSORED" cries, I decided to add the
image of the guy eating his cum drenched biscuit on the [[Soggy biscuit]]
article.

Well it was quickly taken down!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Soggy_biscuit#Removing_the_article_image

But at least we have plenty of other images of people in sexually deviant
situations with their faces shown. :P

-Sarah "You can't always get what you want," Stierch


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- On Fri, 30/9/11, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> From: Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari at wikimedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial
> judgement, and image filters
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Friday, 30 September, 2011, 0:28
>
>
> On 9/28/11 11:30 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> > This post appears mostly to be the tone argument:
> >
> > http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument
> >
> > - rather than address those opposed to the WMF (the body perceived to
> > be abusing its power), Sue frames their arguments as badly-formed and
> > that they should therefore be ignored.
>
> Well, when every thoughtful comment you have on a topic is met with
> nothing more than chants of "WP:NOTCENSORED!", the tone argument seems
> quite valid.
>
> Ryan Kaldari
> Quite.
> I have had editors tell me that if there were a freely licensed video of a
> rape (perhaps a historical one, say), then we would be duty-bound to include
> it in the article on [[rape]], because Wikipedia is not censored.
> That if we have a freely licensed video showing a person defecating, it
> should be included in the article on [[defecation]], because Wikipedia is
> not censored.
> That if any of the Iraqi beheading videos are CC-licensed, NOTCENSORED
> requires us to embed them in the biographies of those who were recently
> beheaded.
> That if we have five images of naked women in a bondage article, and none
> of men having the same bondage technique applied to them, still all the
> images of naked women have to be kept, because Wikipedia is not censored.
> And so on.
> Andreas
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