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Wales Supports Purging Porn From Wikipedia
Larry Sanger writes "Jimmy Wales recently took a bold position against pornography on Wikimedia Commons: 'Wikimedia Commons admins who wish to remove from the project all images that are of little or no educational value but which appeal solely to prurient interests have my full support.' Wales also restarted the "Commons:Sexual content" policy page. His basic complaint is that Wikimedia Commons hosts too much unnecessary porn, and he wants to get rid of it. He underscored his seriousness this way, stating that we can expect 'a strong statement' from the WMF soon: 'If the Wikimedia Foundation wants to declare that it is OK for Commons to be a porn host, they can do that, and I'll not be able to continue. That isn't going to happen, though, and in fact you should expect a strong statement from the Board and/or Sue in the next few days.'" (More, below.)
Sanger continues: "This comes about a month after I originally posted my report about depictions of child sexual molestation on Wikimedia Foundation servers to the FBI, which Slashdot duly ripped to shreds (as only Slashdot can), and a little over a week after the FoxNews.com story. The latter coverage reported that one of my senators, and my representative to Congress, had forwarded the matter to the FBI's Assistant Director of Congressional Affairs. I'm happy to be able to congratulate Jimmy Wales for his good judgment on this, and I look forward to the larger Wikimedia community approaching these issues with a little more sanity."
At least it's not sheep.
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Is the currently hosted porn Creative Commons Licensed? Under what conditions has it been produced? Is it commercial trailers, or home made?
I support destroying the porn industry, by spreading the habit making porn at home and spreading it under a CC license.
"Necessary" is a concept that varies according to each person. To me, my 47 porn DVDs are the necessary amount.
Oh, thanks, I'd forgotten about the Sex for Edits storm in a B-cup.
Presumably all you have to do to get your content the Jimbo stamp of approval is to "fuck his brains out all night". Don't all queue up at once.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
So what have you got against amputee porn in particular?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Amputee porn... yuck! Must be removed!
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I think you mean "...but I know it when I come across it."
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I was going to ask how you manage to resist and remain celibate for life, now I know.
Would you like the answer expressed in Libraries of Congress, or Pallets of Kleenex?
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Next you'll be telling us that Obama had an African father
Are you sure? I'm fairly sure I remember Fox News telling me that his father was Satan and his mother was Stalin's daughter.
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... unnecessary porn ...
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
Is there a comprehensive list of the disputed site? It's raining today and I can evaluate each page to see if it's truely pornographic. Thanx in advance. //gets lotion
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
. . let's get those naked motherboards off the net! I am SICK of seeing pages filled with the sight of fully exposed motherboards, their slots wide open and connectors exposed. It is DISGUSTING! NewEgg is the worst, with close-up views of their back sides and I/O ports. However, NewEgg has more lawyers than ASUS M4A79XTD 'Extreme' has USB ports. I am ready to go in there and delete every motherboard fucking obscene picture!
Are you kidding me? Librarians are the most oppressive censors of free speech out there! Always telling me to stop talking and to stop writing on their books.
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In the middle of the room, several large objects - mostly made of pipes and leather straps, sit ominously.
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Sounds like you work for the SEC
When I saw the headline, I thought it was about Welsh porn, and figured they just wanted to save resources. A list of Welsh porn would take up way too much space, with titles like "Goleuddydd does Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch".