Re: [Bug-gne]the problem of illegal content vs. freedom

[Mike Warren]

Jimmy Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> But GNU should not serve articles advocating racism from GNU
> machines.

I think the classifier systems will largely make this irrelevant; very
few (if any) would include such articles, and the ones which did would
likely include meta-comments indicating the lunacy of the article.

> I think that the naive dogma that editorial oversight is censorship
> really misses the point.

Of course it's censorship; whether it's justified or not is the
question. Nupedia censors articles, but I see this is a Good Thing,
since the goal of Nupedia is narrowly focused on a high-quality
encyclopedia. If people in GNE want such a thing, they should join
with the excellent Nupedia project.

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