Current State of Wikipedia on the Porn Issue ? Options

[Jon Awbrey]

Where would I find our best introduction or most succinct summary for interested outsiders on the current state of the Wiki-Porn issue?

There are active discussions of related matters on Facebook, and it always astounds me how often casual observers get taken in by Jimmy Sue's disinformation campaigns.

Jon

[Jon Awbrey]

My request was incited by one commentator's impression that Jimbo had largely taken care of the problem in his recent highly-publicized porn-purge, which we all know had the same net effect of zero if not negative that all his highly-publicized pretensions do.

Just by way of orientation for the project, here are the comments I posted on Alison's Facebook thread:

This hasn't been one of those issues that I've followed all that closely, mostly because I find it extremely depressing, but I've asked other participants in The Wikipedia Review to help assemble a summary of the current state of things. Here is the thread that I initiated:

► http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=33021

The issue for me is not censorship, or else I'd personally be choosing to err on the side of the ACLU if I had to err at all. The issues are things like Hostile Work Environment, Child Labor, Truth In Advertising, and the Definition of an Encyclopedia. I believe in the maximum rational freedom of artistic expression and scientific inquiry. That means we have to tolerate all sorts of crap in the world, but it doesn't mean you can have your favorite e-rotica as your screen-saver at work, it doesn't mean you can experiment on undergraduates without going through proper channels, and it doesn't mean you can e-tice children “volunteers” to work into the early AM with who knows or who cares what kinds of adult “volunteers” on your tax-advantaged “charity” project for free.