Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > Nathan wrote: >> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:14 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> The obligation to protect people against an invasion of their privacy >>> is not limited to, or even mostly applicable to sexual images. >>> Although sexual images are one of several "most important" cases, the >>> moral imperative to respect the privacy of private individuals exists >>> everywhere. >>> >>> As such, Commons has a specific policy on this: >>> >>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Photographs_of_identifiable_people#Photographs_taken_in_a_private_place >>> >>> >> >> >> Not much of a policy, in my opinion. A general statement of principle, >> with no mechanism of enforcement, doesn't have much impact on the >> state of things. We don't require evidence of release, but we should. >> And in the case of explicit content, we should require that release >> even if the photograph is taken in a public place. Topless sunbathing >> on a beach in Nice is not the same as a worldwide license for >> unlimited publicity. >> >> I may have said it before -- and I do apologize if I sound like a record stuck into repeating the same groove again and again -- but the issue in cases like that *decidedly* isn't the "explicitness" of the image, but the _privacy_ _violation_.
It may be that here again the ugly head of my Nordic liberal values may be rising above the parapet, but I do not consider a female of the species enjoying the sun without incurring tan-lines to their upper torso as remotely "explicit" in any sensible sense of the word -- any more than I would consider "explicit" an image of a woman breastfeeding her one year old baby. Though I do recognize the sentiment that people who have very few opportunities to see womens breasts in "the flesh", might feel otherwise. I forget who it was in relation to a campus ban on shows of affection, that said "Kissing in public in front of lonely people is like eating a hamburger in front of people on the point of starvation." -- or words to that effect. So to recap, I wouldn't support a selective standard only applied to "explicit" images, no matter how defined. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
