Bill Konrad said:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
Suppose we had a rule saying "no use of the
word 'sparrow'".
Now you're just being even more exagerratedly silly.
Absolutely not. I'm trying to illustrate that it is technically easier
for a group that has a specific need for bowdlerized content to filter
existing unbowdlerized content than to require all editors to edit to yet
another limitation of their expression, and that instruction creep of this
kind is both undesirable (because it limits appropriate use of certain
words, concepts and images) and unnecessary (because only the group in
question knows at any given time what it does and does not find acceptable
to it).