[WikiEN-l] Nude Kate Winslet Picture

Wed Apr 13 16:54:10 UTC 2005

Sean Barrett said:
>> From: "Tony Sidaway" <minorityreport at bluebottle.com>
>> Sean:
>> >
>> > Believe it or not, we have good reasons to look things up while at
>> > work, including articles about people.  If any biographical article
>> > can have a nude of that person, however, we won't be using Wikipedia
>> > to do so.
>>
>> Why not?
>
> Corporate policy prohibits all images of nudity, out of fear of sexual
> harassment lawsuits.  Repeat offenses result in termination.  I love
> Wikipedia, but I'm not going to lose my job because the Wikipedia
> community feels it necessary to show bare boobies.

The chance of seeing a picture containing nudity applies to the whole of
the WWW.  Surely the logical thing to do is to suppress image downloads. 
That way you only see the pictures you want to see, and you get all the
text.