Re:What should we do about Wikipedia's mature content problem?
by unimpressive on Thursday May 31, 2012 @01:45AM
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>It isn't a question of whether you agree with the law.
What laws?
(Serious question.)
Re:What should we do about Wikipedia's mature content problem?
by MartinCron on Thursday May 31, 2012 @01:48AM
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Obscenity laws, laws against distributing harmful matter to minors, child pornography laws (including record-keeping compliance)
It isn't a question of whether you agree with the law. It's a question if whether non-compliance with the law is worth the cost. The benefit of having arbitrary, untagged porn on Wikipedia is what exactly? But the cost may be having Wikipedia shut down or fined into oblivion for non-compliance. Is the world a better place with a Wikipedia with the porn tagged and optionally filtered, or with a Wikipedia-shaped hole and for-pay Britannica and Encarta sites fighting over the domain? It's quite possible that those are the real choices, and a Wikipedia as we know it today simply isn't on the menu.