[WikiEN-l] Offensive photos policy

Wed May 12 20:00:21 UTC 2004

I know I am repeating myself, but in this special case it is not the 
readers who are at stake, but the photographed person, who in this case 
has no means to defend his rights to

	-privacy
	-dignity
	-honour

So in this case the policy ought to be: personal human rights are above 
collective rights.

Pedro.

* Jimmy Wales <jwales at bomis.com> [2004-05-12]:
> There is no issue of censorship involved in having the good sense and
> good taste to not automatically display graphic photos that are likely
> to be offensive or upsetting to large numbers of people.
> 
> There will always be difficult questions of where to draw the line, I
> suppose, but we solve that issue in other cases by "going meta",
> i.e. avoiding the controversy.
> 
> With most issues, the wiki process works perfectly fine.  It is almost
> never "either/or" with the text of an article -- creative people can
> almost always find a way to compromise on a text that is different
> from either of two extreme positions.
> 
> With photos, the "show" versus "don't show" really is an "either/or",
> though.  The only possible compromise, and one which I think will
> almost always work just fine, is to *link* to the picture, with
> suitable warnings, and leave it at that.
> 
> That is the proposal that Anthere has proposed in this case, and that
> is what I support.
> 
> I do think that there are cases of photos that we ought to not even
> have on our site at all.  Were it not for the extreme newsworthiness
> of this particular photo, and it's likely longterm political
> importance, I would argue for deleting it.  This is not rotten.com.
> 
> I think that there is great validity to the concern for the family and
> for human dignity in general, with respect to photos of this nature.
> 
> --Jimbo
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