Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Caroline Becker
The Flickr account has been closed down (usually for breach of Flickr's terms of service). Note that there are no 18 USC 2257 records demonstrating that the persons depicted were 18 or over. According to my understanding of US law, any Wikimedian who uploads or inserts such an image without

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Morton
On 31 May 2012 09:23, Caroline Becker carobecke...@gmail.com wrote: The Flickr account has been closed down (usually for breach of Flickr's terms of service). Note that there are no 18 USC 2257 records demonstrating that the persons depicted were 18 or over. According to my understanding of

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
I wanted to ask a question to the members of the list- Is all pornography inherently bad, against women, perhaps, Anti-feminist but does it degrade women just by its sheer existence? Are there women who either a) don't have strong opinions on it b) are supportive of some form of it. For the

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Cynthia Ashley-Nelson
I've found this line of dialogue interesting but have hesitated to participate. When I first started editing Wikipedia, I arrived with a goal to bring some balance to many of the articles pertaining to domestic and international human trafficking and pornography. I soon realized that pornography

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Michelle Gallaway
I think this comment completely misses the point. Yes, if you go to articles on deep throating or tit torture, you will surprise surprise, see images of those things. I don't see this as a big problem. The problem would be if the same images were showing up on articles unrelated to sexuality,

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Nathan
I'm not convinced that sexual images is a gender gap issue. But my non-expert opinion is that there is, or ought to be, a degree of feminist interest in the problems of model releases and age verification. I've always thought it strange that Andreas, and privatemusings before him, focused

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Caroline Becker carobecke...@gmail.comwrote: The Flickr account has been closed down (usually for breach of Flickr's terms of service). Note that there are no 18 USC 2257 records demonstrating that the persons depicted were 18 or over. According to my

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not convinced that sexual images is a gender gap issue. But my non-expert opinion is that there is, or ought to be, a degree of feminist interest in the problems of model releases and age verification. I've always thought it

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: No. Record-keeping is required by law for images whose production involved actual people engaged in sexually explicit conduct, meaning actual or simulated—(i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital,

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Morton
On 31 May 2012 14:10, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: No. Record-keeping is required by law for images whose production involved actual people engaged in sexually explicit conduct, meaning actual or simulated—(i)

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Nathan
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: That's pretty important then, right? Because IIRC circuit court decisions inform judgement in later such cases - and the only way the legal interpretation can be rejudged is in a full appeals court? Tom

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Now, things got complicated when DOJ added an entirely new class of producers you speak of secondary producers, anyone who publishes, reproduces, or reissues explicit material. This is where things get complicated. What

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: Theo, that is completely wrong. Record-keeping requirements only apply to images where models were required to engage in actual sexually explicit conduct, and moreover, it only applies to images created from 1990 onward.

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Outside prosecutors can not prosecute, or charge any editor based on their username, whether its User:someguy542 or User:Ladiesman232, there is no real world link without the IP records. Firstly, that's not the sort of

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Outside prosecutors can not prosecute, or charge any editor based on their username, whether its User:someguy542 or User:Ladiesman232, there is no real

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Nathan
This may be an interesting tangent, but it doesn't really bear on the responsibility of Wikimedia or its projects. While others may have both legal and moral obligations, Wikimedia certainly has moral obligations with or without potential legal liability. The legal arguments are just a

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Risker
Okay, I'm going to try to redirect this thread a bit from the long, drawn out discussion about legal requirements for model releases of explicit images (and the related record keeping), because I think that is only one small aspect of issues. I agree with those who say there is a low risk of

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote: On the Commons side of things, I think there has been an over-aggressive campaign to extract license compliant images from Flickr and other non-WMF repositories that include subjects who were very unlikely to know that their

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
From: Risker On the Commons side of things, I think there has been an over-aggressive campaign to extract license compliant images from Flickr and other non-WMF repositories that include subjects who were very unlikely to know that their image was going to be made available on Commons. I

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Kim Osman
Hi, I edit Wikipedia a lot. I probably spend more time than I should editing Wikipedia. Can I ask where there is a prevalence of pornography on Wikipedia? I honestly can't think of a single time I have come across it when I wasn't directly looking for it. Misogny to a degree, yes.

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Andreas Kolbe
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Kim Osman kim.os...@qut.edu.au wrote: Hi, I edit Wikipedia a lot. I probably spend more time than I should editing Wikipedia. Can I ask where there is a prevalence of pornography on Wikipedia? I honestly can't think of a single time I have come across

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-30 Thread Laura Hale
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Kim Osman kim.os...@qut.edu.au wrote: My first thought was that this indeed is a red herring in terms of addressing the gendergap, however in my limited editing experience I do at times feel like Wikipedia is a boys' club, and perhaps the prevalence of

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-30 Thread Andreas Kolbe
Here are results of a multimedia search for human female in Wikipedia (NSFW): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Searchlimit=250offset=100redirs=0profile=imagessearch=human+female Did you look at the examples Larry mentioned in his post? There are many more: e.g.

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-30 Thread Samuel Klein
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:44 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote: I edit Wikipedia a lot.  I probably spend more time than I should editing Wikipedia.  Can I ask where there is a prevalence of pornography on Wikipedia?  I honestly can't think of a single time I have come across it when