[Clipart] Clip art suitable for kids

Gerald Ganson Gerald.Ganson at rdc.ab.ca
Tue Sep 13 13:57:21 PDT 2005


> Also I 
> think the openclipart community needs to agree on what the new tag
should be named.


>> Well, I doubt that we're going to have a tag "objectable", because,
that is relative.  But, I think something like "sex", 
>> "hand gesture", "nazi", etc. would all be appropriate.  That would
allow other people to make various collections based on 
>> what they find "objectable" while maintaining your set also.


I'd have to agree that the blanket use of a keyword "objectional" or a
word with that meaning is difficult to come to agreement on within any
community. 

For instance I recently uploaded an image which shows a cartoon version
of a mother breastfeeding. I would not find this objectionable in any
way for me or my children. Not everyone may agree with me as to their
children using that image. What if the image was less "cartoon" but
still showed breastfeeding. I'm not asking these questions to be
answered, only to illustrate that the deffinition of "objectionable" is
very much a moving target.

Gerald G.



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