On 09/06/2011 08:29 PM, ???? wrote:
> On 04/09/2011 20:11, church.of.emacs.ml wrote:
>> On 09/04/2011 07:43 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
>>> Assuming that the .de community is similar to the wikimedia community at
>>> large […]
>>
>> That is where I disagree. The personal image filter doesn't make much
>> sense in German Wikipedia, since the German culture is generally pretty
>> liberal with respect to depictions of sexuality, (partially) violence
>> and of course Muhammed. So it's clear that there is simply no or a very
>> small necessity for a filter; thus the rejection.
> 
> 
> I call bullshit. If wikipedia or its chapters should ever be found to be 
> liable under German law there is going to have some explaining to do:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_by_region#Germany
> http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-12-n23.html
> http://www.chillingeffects.org/international/notice.cgi?NoticeID=5990
> http://www.chillingeffects.org/international/notice.cgi?NoticeID=2187

I was talking about German culture, not German law. In other words,
people don't seem to be so weirded out by sexuality like some* Americans
are. Look up Freikörperkultur for an example.

* (I don't want to overgeneralize things :))

--Tobias

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