[WikiEN-l] Prudishness and censorship

Wed Apr 20 13:28:23 UTC 2005

Rick: Do you object to the principle of providing a mechanism that permits users to prevent the display of some images?

Note that I am asking if the very idea is a problem so that we know whether it is the concept or the details of the mechanism that exercises you.

Theo

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:21:09 +0100, Rick wrote:
> --- jfdwolff at doctors.org.uk wrote:
>> Avoiding these images, or having a Preferences key
>> to prevent their display, is NOT censorship. It is
>> part of achieving the goal of Wikipedia, as I have
>> argued above. It is also not a violation of NPOV, as
>> an image is not a POV. It is being plain sensible,
>> sensitive and broad-minded.
>>
> I love how those who are trying to censor Wikipeida
> are calling THEMSELVES broad-minded.
>
> And they continue to fail to address where the line is
> drawn.  The author contends that we should cater to
> the millions of people worldwide who would be offended
> by Ms. Winslet's blurry breast, but makes no
> suggestion to remove all images of women's faces,
> which would obviously offend our Muslim readers.  Or
> the images of the massacre of Nanking, or the image of
> the naked girl running from napalm.  Or the image of a
> man with a gun to his head.  Or the image of Rachel
> Corrie about to be mowed down by a bulldozer.