[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

Marc Riddell michaeldavid86 at comcast.net
Wed Mar 7 18:29:18 UTC 2012


on 3/7/12 12:52 PM, Juliana da Costa José at
julianadacostajose at googlemail.com wrote:

> Hi Phoebe,
> 
> so it would be not longer possible too, to have medical pictures f.e. from
> surgeries, organs or corpses, because they could frighten people?
> 
> Best
> 
> Juliana

>> 2012/3/7 Juliana da Costa José <julianadacostajose at googlemail.com>:
>>> Andreas, you seem really maniac fixed to this theme. I am since 7 years
>> in
>>> Wikipedia and never saw this pictures.
>>> For me are pictures from tortured persons, from war and weapons torn
>> bodies
>>> and shot heads a much more terrifying that sex-pics (I spare posting
>>> "spectacular" links, just for attending the voyeurism), but for some
>>> mysterious reasons, this is no "controversial content".

2012/3/7 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com>
>> 
>> Hey Juliana,
>> 
>> As far as I am concerned pictures of violence certainly fall under
>> "controversial content"; it's been defined that way in everything the
>> board has written too. Images that could be shocking or unexpectedly
>> frightening are definitely part of thinking about this whole issue.
>> 
>> best,
>> -- phoebe
>> 
Phoebe, does this sound familiar? "We want you to imagine a world in which
every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That
is our commitment". "We're in it for the long haul". (From: "Ten things you
may not know about Wikipedia")

Should this read, "...the sum of all knowledge (except any controversial
content that may upset some people."

Are you concerned about the Project's image or its content?

All knowledge - or none.

Marc Riddell

I will be intelligent enough to know that little can be known; inquisitive
enough never to stop learning, and perceptive enough to understand that all
things and all events contain infinite possibilities. - MR





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