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Re: [Bug-gnupedia]censorship


From: Hector Facundo Arena
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia]censorship
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:16:56 +0000

> I agree that there should be a simple way of removing
> very poor articles, and perhaps reviews/comments by
> consensus of opinion. Perhaps there should be a group
> of moderators as with /. that could have the final say
> on removing an article. Afterall, if somebody got a
> load of friends to help him/her, or just resubmitted
> the bad review many times, any article could easily be
> removed.
>
> In terms of taste, I think this is quite tricky
> because in my opinion the traditional view of "taste"
> is stupid. For instance, we shouldn't go down the road
> of banning Nazi material, because its obvious is is
> opinion as well as fact. Lets not go down the road
> Yahoo are probably going down. Perhaps, if we want to
> be careful about offending, articles should have an
> indication that they got reviewed as beign in bad
> taste/ etc. next to the link.
>

Initially, we can't refuse any article because is poor or short. That's part 
of the freedom of the project.

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Hector Facundo Arena
Home Page: www.arena.org.ar
e-mail: address@hidden

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