My two cents: I don't think we have external pressure to do this. Web filtering companies which filter by keyword are aware Wikipedia contains a lot of those naughty keywords. Anything they think they need to do about it they already do. OTRS hasn't been seeing parental complaints, we haven't seen negative coverage in the press, etc.
We don't make a huge deal about it, but I think that "the world at large" knows what we do and is OK with it. The internal enwiki community is very anti-censorship, in particular anti-think-of-the-children censorship. It's one of the core NOT listings. I understand that we have many who disagree. But I think that the community has spoken, and that the Foundation wouldn't do any good interfering, and that there's no cause to. If the community were threatening its own good or long term survival by being that uncensored a case could be made for intervention. But we seem to have found a working line that essentially everyone agrees to that pedophillia and child porn are out, the rest is all basically ok, and that these limits are legally and socially defensible internally and externally. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
