On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote:
> I remember once at the local college library, Adams State, in Alamosa, > that they had Girl on a Swing in the children's collection. At my secondary school library (er, I think that's 'high school' for the US equivalent) we were given a tour of the library in the first year. We were given some time to look around and a fellow pupil told me that the teacher had a book that showed photos of violent deaths. I "went mad" as that fellow pupil later described it: I immediately dashed over to see this book the teacher was holding. I had a very morbid curiosity about such things. I learned that this book was kept in a special locked room and only brought out on request (not that the request was always granted). I'm surprised now that I didn't take more interest in the locked room and make it a mission to see all the books kept in there. Which brings me to the thought that I'm sure that if we tag images deemed to be offensive there'll be a constituency of kids that immediately gravitate towards seeing as many of those images as possible, either because we've made it easier to do so or because someone outside of Wikipedia writes a list hosted off-site for all to see. I'm not saying that's a reason to not have a filter. Just that I see it having the above effect. Bod _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
