QUOTE(Somey @ Mon 7th June 2010, 5:30pm)
I was under the impression that Mr. Stillwaterising was one of those people who, shall we say, really really enjoys online porn (if not porn in general) and is willing to make whatever efforts or arguments are necessary to protect it, even if it means getting heavily involved with Wikipedia. I've looked at his contribution history and I suppose it could be said that he actually does want to keep a lid on child porn (at least the more blatant stuff), if only as a way to ensure the continued availability (if not growth) of adult porn. However, since he and the other WP'ers have largely failed in keeping said lid on, he's now trying to reconcile his past porn advocacy with recent arguments for morally responsible behavior WRT child-abuse imagery.
Am I at least in the ballpark here? I would agree that in his case, what might have been a "moral compass" does seem to have been replaced with a set of US legal citations, but then again, that's probably better than nothing.
Either way, the solution to this (if there is one) is probably not to find more subjects to write about that can potentially be illustrated with "erotic" images of underaged individuals, even if those articles are ostensibly about the abusive nature of such things...?
Hmm, I have to say that judging by a few deletion discussions, his work at the COM:SEX draft sexual content policy for Commons, as well as posts to the Foundation list, it would be ludicrous to accuse Stillwaterising of being an advocate
for the presence of
any kind of gratuitous sexual imagery on Commons, or in Wikipedia. Do him the courtesy of spending an hour looking at his Commons contributions, or even better, ask Max Rebo Band for his opinion on Stillwaterising.
Stillwaterising also happens to be the editor who
introduced the reference to the
Dost test (T-H-L-K-D) in the proposed Sexual content policy. Without that addition, there would have been nothing in the draft policy to prevent anyone uploading an image of an actual 12-year-old in that pose and attire.
I too am a little puzzled that he introduced the image, which was discussed at the COM:SEX talk page, into this article. I can only think that it was a case of so many people telling us that photos of women with small breasts are fine and that the image was fine on Commons that he tried to find an "educational use" for it. (IMG:
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