[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.

Tue May 11 01:19:43 UTC 2004

Pictures of the clitoris are not displayed to avoid pandering to purient
interests which apparently (I have not followed this debate) outweighs the
information value.

While there may be a few readers who might enjoy pictures of torture and
putting many of them on Wikipedia would be wrong there is such a strong
history of people lying about torture that we would not want to part of
suppression of evidence. Thus there is a very high information value. (We
finally caught a few of these sonsabitches). There is a point of view
problem as 99.9% of torture is not photographed thus displaying pictures of
American torture only (as pictures of Saudi Arabian or Israeli or Turkish or
Tibetan or [put in your own despotic regime] torture are not available)
gives a somewhat false impression. It takes a pretty dumb criminal to take
pictures (or let others take pictures) of themselves while they are
committing a crime.

Fred

> From: Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: anthere9 at yahoo.com, English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 02:51:44 +0200
> To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.
> 
> We censor pictures of clitoris on the english wikipedia.
> We censor clitoris pictures, while billion of humans on Earth have a
> clitoris, and that is something perfectly normal to have.
> 
> We censor clitoris for the motive that people could be shocked.
> 
> However, we do not censor pictures of torture and humiliation. Forgive
> me, but I am troubled.
> 
> No, I do not think everything should be shown, especially soon after
> they happen. Just as some criminal trials of WWII horors were recorded,
> but the records preserved for several years before being shown publicly.
> This in memory of the deads. Even though we know what happened.
> 
> So, explain to me why we show shocking images of human humiliation,
> while we cant display clitoris, because chaste eyes would be shocked ?
> 
> 
> Fred Bauder a écrit:
>> They belong. If they allowed picture taking at the Colorado State
>> Penitentiary or in a prison in France they would belong too. Their
>> importance is that most torture in prisons happens without pictures being
>> taken. These pictures have to stand in place of the hundreds or even
>> thousands of similar situations that don't get recorded. Or is that too
>> creative?
>> 
>> Fred
> 
> 
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