On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:55 AM, teun spaans <teun.spa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it stand any chance to file against Foxnews for slaunder? > It seems they are also actively approaching organizations who donated > support to wikimedia.
The recent mass deletions have made it harder to refute their outrageous claims— since they can now state that these images previously existed but must have been deleted. "Images tagged for deletion — though some were still viewable Friday afternoon — include pictures of men, women and young girls involved in a range of sex acts with each other and, in some cases, with animals." I have no doubt that this is referring to any of many 18th century drawings of historic and artistic interest which we still have. For example, as was pointed out on commons, it could even be describing an image like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leda_Melzi_Uffizi.jpg (though it was probably describing something more raunchy, some of the french drawings from the 1880s are pretty crazy) In any case, I've never seen _photographs_ meeting the above description on commons. Sadly we can no longer take the easy path of combating the outrageous claims of child porn by pointing to categories such as http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pedophilia filled with old drawings sourced from the US library of congress and point out that _this_ is what Fox and Sanger are complaining about — because now people will just believe that there previously was something else there which we've since hidden. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
