[WikiEN-l] Re: Censorship, really?

Mon Feb 28 02:01:45 UTC 2005

Hmmmm, so do I.

Ant

Arno M a écrit:
> I'll risk choking up your e-mail accounts to say that I agree with Oneguy here.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: OneGuy <oneguyks at gmail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Censorship, really?
> Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:12:52 -0600
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>>Someone wrote:
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>><something about censorship>
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>>Every newspaper/encyclopedia/media has some kind of editorial policy.
>>This is not the same thing as "censorship."  A newspaper puts all the
>>sports stories in one section, all the local news in another, and
>>keeps the classified ads separately from the news and editorials.
>>Censorship means trying to disallow expression of certain views in all
>>media, but we are not trying to remove the picture from everywhere on
>>the internet. You are free to post that picture on your web site if
>>you want. We won't campaign to get it deleted from your web site.
>>Having an editorial policy on graphic pictures is not "censorship."
>>That has to be the most absurd claim posted yet. Should we have no
>>editorial policy and no limits? Should we allow trolls to upload child
>>porn as an excuse to "illustrates" the child porn article? How about
>>allowing trolls to upload bestiality, anal sex, coprophilia,
>>urolagnia, necrophilia, and rape porn to illustrate those articles?
>>That's clearly absurd. There should be clear editorial policy on
>>graphic pictures. If not, and if every troll is allowed to upload all
>>kinds of graphic pictures as an excuse to "illustrate" articles,
>>Wikipedia would get blocked by all child protection software, some
>>ISPs, and all countries where porn is illegal. That's clearly harmful
>>to Wikipedia, and it opens the door to trolls to disrupt Wikipedia by
>>uploading even more extreme and graphic porn,  and then cry
>>"censorship" when it is removed.
>>
>>OneGuy
>>(Sorry, couldn't resist responding when I read some preposterous claim
>>about "censorship" on the archive).
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