[Clipart] Re: nazi flag ban called for in the EU by germany post-harry costume

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller]

Well if you had also been following the debate after your first lost
mail got lost, you would have seen that the answer to your question is
'no'. I am more inclined to start sorting suggestions like this one into
a trash folder called 'controversial'.

Christian


On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 07:52 +0000, David Illsley wrote:
> Hi all,
> I submitted this idea a few days ago but my e-mail got lost somewhere 
> :-(
> 
> Why not allow a small group of people (possibly even just one) to 
> declare an image "controversial" (marked by that keyword). This doesn't 
> say that it is illegal, offensive or immoral but that it is 
> controversial with at least 'n' people. Then distribute 2 packages. 1 
> full and the other without any controversial images. It is then up to 
> the package distributor whether they want to look through all the 
> controversial images and pick the ones they want to exclude (for 
> whatever reason) or just exclude them all by basing it on the smaller 
> package.
> Simple, easy, respects everyone's beliefs.
> 
> David
> 
> On 18 Jan 2005, at 01:23, Mat Hounsell wrote:
> 
> > If the appropriateness of images is a concern, then may I suggest that 
> > this
> > project take a purely (apolitical) technical/librarian stance.
> >
> > If you say "we are going to accept any image" then you open yourself 
> > to images
> > that members will consider inappropriate, even offensive.
> >
> > If you block one image then you will find yourself being asked to 
> > block more
> > and more images. Not to mention being taken to task for blocking 
> > images.
> >
> > Perhaps , rather than refusing images, you are better instituting a 
> > benefit
> > policy.
> >
> > E.G.
> >   A symbol will be accepted if it
> >   * is specified in a (international) standard [e.g. biohazard]
> >   * is a professional symbol
> >   * is a historical symbol [e.g. nazi flag, ussr flag]
> >   etc
> >
> >   An image will be accepted if it
> >   * conveys a simple universal idea
> >   etc
> >
> > Yes, it is not terriblely well defined at the moment; but you refine 
> > it as you
> > go. You look at each image and ask what does this image convey? What 
> > benefit
> > will it's use give our user?
> >
> > A simple litmus test:
> > Could thim image help a high school student with a project?
> >
> >
> >
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