On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:44 PM, ??? <wiki-l...@phizz.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/10/2011 20:04, Béria Lima wrote: >> /me does. >> >> And here is why: 70% of the problem with a image stands in WHO IS SEEING IT. >> I'm from Brazil and in my country we even have 1 week festival - worldwide >> >> famous - for have several (like hundreds to thousands) of semi naked girls >> >> and boys dancing Samba. > > > And? Regardless of carnival Brazilian TV does not randomly show images > of genital peircings in between childrens TV shows. Brazillian TV does > not suddenly show images of women being ejaculated over, and nor will > you find such images in school books. Nor do you get such images > delivered in your morning papers. > > >> And here is the catch. You know what the Television comment on that? (yes, >> >> is in public television and pass from 9pm to 8 am during 4 days + a >> retransmission on a saturday afternoon ), the comments are: "Person X has a >> fantasy of YYY", "Girl Z praticed samba for 4 months to that, and she is >> dancing really good" or similar. I saw +15 festivals (before I was too young >> to be up at 10pm) and never saw as pornography. >> > > I note that the TV shows the scenes after 9pm, or in other words they > apply some filter on the content if only based on time. > >
As a person from a more nordic and perhaps even ruder than brazilian culture, We did confront a teacher who was in her retirement age with images worse than genital piercings. And, yes, she not only blushed but turned livid, But she kept on teaching us biology. ! Not saying what we did was right, as kids. Not saying she shouldn't have done more to get the stuff from being thrown about. But there is a point there about tolerances. If an elderly lady was able to keep teaching while being bombarded with images of withered old female genitals being inserted with electrical appliance cable stashing piping, why can't wikipedia? I know this sounds totally offensive on the face of it, but surely that is the whole point. Being against censorship only matters when there is a potential outrage there... -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
