Tony wrote:
Could we drop this really very silly fig-leaf? What we
do on
Wikipedia is censorhip--it's unavoidable, part and parcel of what we
do in producing an encyclopedia. When we decide what should and
should not belong to Wikipedia, we're censoring Wikipedia. It's
censorship, and there's no big deal about it. Why this huge, tiresome
monstrous effort to find another name for it?
I think you're devaluating the term "censorship". You have not responded to
my observation that internal control of content is not strictly "censorship",
and this is definitely not a figleaf (or a coloured block, for that matter :-).
We actually control content all the time, through the means of VfD. Apart from hard-boiled
trolls, nobody has ever applied the term of "censorship" to the VfD process.
To reiterate my view: Wikipedia aims to produce an encyclopedia for the widest possible
readership. This readership is reduced if it attains a reputation for containing
inappropriate images. My employer's web access blocking tool already blocks out
Wikipedia.
JFW
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