--- Arno M <redgum46(a)lycos.com> wrote:
csherlock at ljh.com.au (csherlock at ljh.com.au)
[050214 11:23]:
Arno M wrote:
>I'd like to put my reply to sannse's
e-mail here.
>That autofellatio image should go - and go immediately.
>People have the right to go through this wikipedia without being
confronted
>with this kind of pornographic material
without warning.
Out of interest Arno, why are you looking at the
Autofellatio article if
you risk getting offended?
I too would like to know the answer to this question.
(It's like people who complain the picture on [[clitoris]] is not worksafe
and can't come up with why they were reading about clitorises in the course
of their job.)
Your argument is that any poor fool who visits such a page "deserves whatever
they get". I disagree. For a start, it may be that the person does not even
understand what the topic means -- the reason that they're looking it up in
Wikipedia in the first place (it's quite possible that I'd choose to visit
Wikipedia first, rather than Google or a dictionary, when investigating an
unfamiliar noun). Furthermore, I don't think it follows that, even if a reader
knows what it means, that there would be any expectation of a graphic
photographic illustration. It's unusual to see "porno-style" images in an
dry,
academic reference work -- like Wikipedia. And still furthermore, I think it is
quite legitimate to want to read the text but not view such an image -- I would
fall into this category, for instance. Images can be very potent -- which is
why "Goatse" is a photo and not a chunk of prose.
I do think readers must be given the opportunity to choose whether they see
images like this or not. I don't think they should have to fiddle around
crippling their browsers to achieve this, either. It would be nice to have some
elegant cookie/server-filtering/optional software feature, but inlining is an
effective (albeit inelegant) solution for now.
-- Matt
[[User:Matt Crypto]]
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