[SharedKnowing] Wikimedia to adopt a stricter porn policy?

[Larry Sanger]

I don't think you're getting my point, David: you insist that the only
limitation on the amount of porn should be whatever is allowed "in the most
permissive practical jurisdiction."  This indicates that you're thinking of
this as a legal matter.  I was not.  Now, maybe the law is in fact
influencing Wales--we don't know if the FBI or IRS has scared him into doing
this, or what.  But quite aside from the law, there's the separate question
of whether it is *reasonable* to limit the *amount* of porn.  Why should
Commons become a massive repository of porn?  It's nonsense to answer *that*
question by saying, "Because the law, somewhere where the servers can be
located, permits it."  Perhaps you are taking the position that Commons is
somehow morally obligated to take *all* media from *all* comers (so to
speak)?  If not--if there are some reasonable restrictions, because it has
an educational and reference mission--then on what grounds do you defend
your frankly silly position that Jimmy Wales should let Commons become a
giant porn repository? 

--Larry

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at mail.citizendium.org] On Behalf Of David Goodman
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 1:05 AM
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> Subject: Re: [SharedKnowing] Wikimedia to adopt a stricter porn policy?
> 
> Yes, I not only fully accept the inclusion of pornography in a
> reference work, but I think a modern online encyclopedia designed for
> a general adult audience  to be woefully incomplete without it.
> The only limitation  should be the extent to which  is actually
> illegal in the most permissive practical jurisdiction, and I would
> advocate that except for material involving children,  the proper
> legal approach is that none of it should be.
> 
> I agree that our two approaches are so  incompatible that there is no
> point in trying to resolve them.
> 
> David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG