[WikiEN-l] Just to throw this out there...

Thu Jun 12 20:51:12 UTC 2003

> The point of view is *not* that children should be educated in
> such-and-such a way, but rather that people who want to be restrictive
> about the material that people (not necessarily just children!) have
> access to should set up those restrictions *themselves*; that it is not
> part of Wikipedia's mission to censor material about certain topics, but
> that our license allows anyone who wishes to to create a derivitive work
> which is more limited in scope and more targeted in audience.

Yeah, I agree - and I think that LD is in agreement - that setting up a
means for parents to "protect" children is not unreasonable. They already
do. What we dont want is for Netnanny to censor us. So then we should have a
scalable protection scheme.

But we could do all of that - and still be censored by CS, NN and others...
We would be then trying fit into a mold set by other parameters - CORPORATE
parameters - and this would be cross to our original purpose - which is
based on freedom and minimalist rules. Its what drives the WP.

WikiLove to all
-SM