[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status - the image filter disguised under a new label
Andreas Kolbe
jayen466 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 18:13:14 UTC 2012
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Fae <faenwp at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Strangely enough, searching Commons for "Male figure" rather than
>> "Male human" shows me artwork from the National Museum of African Art
>> and a Michelangelo Buonarroti sketch from the Louvre in top matches.
>> No problem with wading through "100 dicks and arseholes". In fact,
>> carefully checking through the first 100 matches of that search gave
>> me no explicit photographs of naked people or their private parts at
>> all.
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> Just a second here – this search
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&limit=250&offset=20&redirs=0&profile=images&search=male+human
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> doesn't give you any "explicit photographs of naked people or their private parts at all" in the first 100 matches? Really?
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> The 1st image is a close-up of a urinating penis. The 5th image is a close-up of a penis. The 8th, 9th and 11th image are close-ups of penises, one of them erect, and one with a hand grabbing the scrotum. The 13th image is a close-up of an arsehole. The 14th image a close-up of a scrotum. The 15th, 17th, 18th, and 19th are images of erect penises. And so on. I haven't mentioned any of the other nude images.
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> Andreas
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I think I misread Fae, who was probably referring to his search for "male
figure" when he said he did not have a problem having to wade through
sexual images. Apologies. :)
Andreas
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