[WikiEN-l] Deleting the Lolicon picture

Sat Apr 8 07:46:59 UTC 2006

Ryan Delaney wrote:
> On 4/7/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Some of us feel that even if the image had been free, it still should
>>never have been included in Wikipedia. Concentrating on its copyright
>>status is ignoring the real debate, rather than deciding once and for
>>all how to deal with images that would be perceived by the public to
>>be child porn.
> 
> It's not even that the public would perceive that image to be child porn. It
> is
> child porn. It's an image of a child created for the sole purpose of
> producing
> pleasurable sexual excitation in the viewer. Child + porn = child porn.
> Process
> isn't relevant when it comes to stuff like this. Whether we should host
> child
> porn on WMF servers is not something that is up for a vote.

There's no child, only a drawing. No child + porn = no child porn.