[WikiEN-l] The Censorship Lie

Wed Feb 16 17:38:35 UTC 2005

geni wrote:

>>If some information is missing, then people will wonder what else is
>>missing. And that will lead to mistrust. And to be a mistrusted
>>encyclopedia is worse than reformatting the hard drives.
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>What information is lost if we don't include the image?
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Well, the information the image provides would be lost, I suppose.  
However, generally people aren't suggesting we don't include the images 
at all, but merely include them as links, so it would seem to be 
impossible for any information to be lost---exactly the same information 
will be present, just navigable in a different manner.  Sort of like how 
old-style books that had figure plates instead of inline figures (due to 
the printing methods used) did not have less information, merely 
information in a different order.

-Mark