[Wikipedia-l] Re: censorship

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Richard Holton a écrit:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:26:33 -0500, Gregory Maxwell
> <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote (in part):
> 
> 
>>I'm having a problem getting over the cognative dissonance here.
>>People have differing views of what is right and wrong, this is true
>>for people of the same culture or people of differing cultures. When
>>we attempt to modify the article to fit our views and exclude others,
>>this is non-neutral and this is censorship.
>>
> 
> I don't think the issue is really about "right" or "wrong". I think
> that most people in most cultures would agree that "murder" is wrong
> (though they may define murder in differing ways). However, it would
> take a _very_ extreme position to suggest that we not have an article
> about murder in Wikipedia. Its wrongness does not at all suggest that
> is should not be covered.
> 
> However, I suspect you'd find much less agreement about including in
> that article a photo or a movie showing an actual murder. Again, this
> is not about right or wrong. It's about appropriateness. In this case,
> you might find substantial cultural variation, as well as differences
> of opinion within some cultures.
> 
> Making a decision to include or exclude such an image/movie from an
> article is not a question of censorship. It's a question of what is
> appropriate, which is subjective and will vary between cultures.
> 
> To, for example, insist that an article on murder _must_ include an
> image/movie showing murder if a free, informational one is available,
> is to become enslaved to the concept of censorship as much as
> insisting that the article must not have such an image/movie. Either
> way, we are sacrificing our ability to apply editorial judgment.
> 
> -- Rich Holton
> 
> en.wikipedia:User:Rholton

Nod. I also agree with this. Ant