--- Jim Trodel <trodel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I enjoyed your essay (and you may be surprised that I
agree with
most
of it). Unfortunately it addresses an argument that I am not
making:
No, your question is a subset of the greater question I answered: Can
NPOV and Censorship abide in the same body of work?
Thanks for saying you enjoyed it. I went over it twice to remove
egregious typos. ;)
...
The question remains:
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Why is the compromise, i.e. "To not include the image inline but
make
it accessible by a link" not considered reasonable?
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Because unless all photos are shown through links, the ones that are
will be "flagged", essentially singled out as potentially offensive
to a group or groups. Should the Jack Daniels logo be linked then,
seeing as it might be quite offensive to a billion muslims? This will
only reinforce the notion that wikipedia editors are biased. And
that's Not Good for our NPOV aims.
...
Hopefully if such children get access to wikipedia they will find
out
about child slavery and support organizations that want to help
them
them get out of bondage. And even more hopefully, wikipedia will be
part of spreading knowledge (and the associated freedom that comes
from acting on knowledge) in such a way that 11 and 12 your old
prostitutes don't exist.
Are you saying it's bad that 11 and 12 year old prostitutes exist?
The practice had been around for thousands of years, is alive and
well today, and will most likely go on for quite some time. Are you
inserting a personal value judgment? On this list, fine. Keep it out
of the WP though.
I am not saying what my morality dictates. It is not relevent to the
creating of the encyclopedia.
...
And what of the mistrust that comes from looking up a topic you
have
heard of and are not quite sure what it means (although you can
guess)
and immediately seeing a very graphic image.
There is a link. [[Autofellatio]]. There. Happy?
Want more images? Google them.
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