On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:22 PM, The Cunctator <[email protected]> wrote: > Hooray for letting American prurience and Larry Sanger's oddities shape the > project.
Wikimedia's goal is to bring knowledge to everyone on Earth, not just Europeans. Europe is at the extreme left on the global social scale, along with a handful of other developed nations. Americans are more socially conservative than Europeans, but still more liberal than most of the world. There are 1.5 billion Muslims on Earth, for instance, which is more than America and Europe *combined* (although many of those Muslims are European or American). The large majority of Muslims would find these images grossly offensive. So would many others from *really* conservative cultures. Americans are the least of the story. The tolerance of sexual imagery on Wikimedia is a byproduct of Western liberal provincialism. Putting sensitivity to the cultural attitudes of others above (thoroughly hypocritical) ideals of non-censorship is essential to Wikimedia's long-term success, and I'm glad to see that people are finally being forced to deal with this. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
