[Bf-webcontent] Fwd: Blender.org website section email

[Ofer G.]

I generally oppose any kind of censorship in blender3d.org. However,
why not make a subdomain, something like youth.blender.org, or even a
new domain if you got the money, and put there only materials that are
100% appropriate for kids. So that even schools could link to it
safely.

Sincerely,
Ofer



On 2/5/06, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> there are two seperate issues here
>
> 1) Should Blender Foundation host content that is in poor taste and
> reflects poorly on Blender?
>
> Naughty nurse
> http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Stand-alones.162.0.html
>
>  is harmless but it is in "bad taste" and as such reflects poorly on
> Blender Foundation.
>
> Personally I think this is the more persuasive side of the issue
>
> 2) Should we host content that will prevent us from being used at schools?
>
> This is similar to the issue Ubuntu encountered with its background
> screen.  However depections of the nude form is an integral part of
> artistry.  Thus if we had renders containing artistic nudity in the in
> the gallery, then I'd argue against there removal even if it would
> prevent some schools from linking to the Blender Foundation.
>
> So in the case of the nurse I'd say that 1 is persuasive which happens
> to also effect 2.
>
> Note that in the US all schools recieving federal funding are required
> to have content filters on them.  Since pretty much all schools do
> recieve federal funding the filters are nearly universal.  Due to the
> nature of how the keyword filters work the wording in the caption is
> possible (likely?) to result in Blender being a blocked site.  Ie the
> words naughty, nurse, mature and warning in such close proximity would
> likely lead to blender being filtered if the school is using keyword
> filtering.
>
> LetterRip
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