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Submitted by Taran Rampersad (not verified) on February 25, 2008 - 2:49pm.

I've been following this with some interest as well. What everyone seems to forget, and which I hope makes it into your dissertation, is that Wikipedia rejected middle ground outright and made this a boolean issue where it did not have to be.

The ability to have a default setting where images were not shown but were available to those interested would have been great middle ground. It also would have demonstrated some functionality and made people aware of differences in thought, and why there were differences in thought.

As it is, Wikipedia lost an opportunity to do some good and be a functional work.

I'll be posting on this again within the next few days, myself. Cultural sensitivity need not be censorship - but the Wikipedia made it so.

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"The atoms, as their own weight bears them down plumb through the void, at scarce determined times, in scarce determined places, from their course decline a little- call it, so to speak, mere changed trend. For were it not their wont thuswise to swerve, down would they fall, each one, like drops of rain, through the unbottomed void; and then collisions ne'er could be nor blows among the primal elements; and thus nature would never have created aught."

-Lucretius, Of The Nature of Things

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