In other words, children should be denied access to the internet unless
their parents choose to expose them to degeneracy? But that is not our
question. Obviously a user of Wikipedia may be occasionally exposed to
material which is inserted as vandalism. The question is whether, after due
consideration, objectionable material is to be included as an accepted part
of our presentation of knowledge.
Fred
From: "Tony Sidaway"
<minorityreport(a)bluebottle.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 09:47:08 -0000 (GMT)
To: <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] One reason why Wikipedia is not presently
classroom-safe
Arno M said:
"Parents and school administrators and
especially in the United States,
local school boards. A teacher who allows their students free access to
Wikipedia is a fool."
A similar question involves minors accessing it at home or in some
public library that bans access to sexually explicit sites.
In my opinion, Public libraries should not permit unsupervised minors to
use the internet unless their parents first, being properly informed as to
the nature of the internet, knowingly and explicitly give the library
permission to do so.
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