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Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law by ekianjo on Saturday October 28, 2023 @09:40AM (#38049709)
> The point of Wikipedia — that it can be edited at any time — absolutely makes it impossible to survive any age rating system other than "adults only".

Oh but when it's news at dinner time showing dead children and weapons firing on and on it's all fine, I guess?

Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law by ben_w on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:10AM (#38049937)
1) When that comes up in UK news, it does get prefixed with "this report has some scenes that viewers may find disturbing".

2) I don't know what the rules are for broadcasts at different times of day, but I do know they exist

3) I have always been perplexed as to why violence is considered so much more acceptable than, for example, sexuality. Outright murder? Apparently a suitable topic for children's shows. Nipples, which are the defining characteristic of the class Mammalia to which we belong? Hide them all! Unless it's a famous statue (then it's Classical Art), or a man's vestigial ones (then it's so unremarkable nobody even says anything).

Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law by rpastuszak on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:39AM (#38050156)
Re 3) FYI this is a relatively US/UK centric approach. In most of the countries I lived in, besides the UK, the bias was against violence, in this context.
Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law by rzwitserloot on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:53AM (#38050265)
It's not of course. But 'screening' news casts for 'inappropriate' content is easy and it is easy to point fingers when it doesn't meet 'standards'.

Whereas with wikipedia, unless a dedicated team of editors who are contracted or liable to vet _every_ change. Possibly only for the UK, who get a special 'only with vetted edits' version or some such, I don't think wikipedia would be interested in making such a thing.

Separate from that, wikipedia has various pages on (conditions related to) our sexual organs, as well as lots of articles about politically contentious things. I don't think they are particularly interested in filtering that either.

In contrast to news channels, most of which would have no particular complaints about a bunch of rules about content. As a rule your 9'o clock news isn't going to just casually show frontal nudity (except e.g. Germany because they're fine with it).

One obvious problem is all those words in single quotes: Who gets to decide? Evidently you aren't happy with whomever decided how far you can go with the content shown on the news, and I concur that it goes quite far. But the point isn't about the current standards being applied. The point is whether _any_ standard can be applied at all.

To news: Yes. To wikipedia: Not in a way wiki foundation would accept.

Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law by anticensor on Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:23AM (#38050502)
> Whereas with wikipedia, unless a dedicated team of editors who are contracted or liable to vet _every_ change.

A few other Wikipedias including the Turkish one work in that exact manner.

Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law by ben_w on Sunday October 29, 2023 @07:24PM (#38063878)
I've not heard of this before, do you have a reference for that? I can't find it easily, but… well… Google's not so great at this kind of thing any more.
Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law by anticensor on Sunday November 05, 2023 @11:13AM (#38152385)