Tony Sidaway wrote:
But wouldn't it be better if we let people
choose which types of images
they wanted to display? Turning off all images removes all the images in
the article, while a content-filtering system would be specific to
images deemed offensive by the reader.
This really is the only long term solution. We add some buttons in
Special:Preferences, and have two or three options -- e.g.
uncensored/moderate/strict. Explicit content would automatically be
filtered from then on, or not.
It would involve more work coding, and more work maintaining tags on
explicit content, and arguments about whether [[Image:Y]] should get
tagged as explicit or not, and so on. But there's no other long term
solution I can think of, because we do need to have boobs and clitorises
in the appropriate places, but people do need to have a way not to see
them if they'd rather not. (Making the user disable images doesn't count
as a solution.) A fork on the basis of censorship would be unlikely
after then.
"Explicit" is majorly POV. However, it would be possible to have NPOV
labels like "bare female breasts" and "human blood". There's been
some
discussion at