"Wikipedia Co-Founder Larry Sanger has launched a campaign against the online encyclopedia for content filters to be put in place."
Part of being a reference work. There are aspects of reality that are offensive or disturbing. I think we've made considerable progress on this matter in terms of removing or offering tools to prevent surprising people with gratuitous salacious material, but a refractory remnant of simple fact will always remain a part of Wikipedia. Some of it very important information even for children. Fred > On 10 September 2012 19:51, Steve Summit <s...@eskimo.com> wrote: >> http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/09/10/wikipedia-slow-to-filter-graphic-imagery-from-site/ >> >> "Wikipedia has turned down a more or less free offer for software >> that would keep minors and unsuspecting web surfers from >> stumbling upon graphic images of sex organs, acts and emissions, >> FoxNews.com has learned -- sexually explicit images that remain >> far and away the most popular items on the company's servers." >> >> Funny, I didn't realize we (or commons, which is what they're >> really talking about) were a porn site, but I guess they wouldn't >> print it if it wasn't true... _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
