Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Selective Censorship in Poser Gallery...

pookah69 opened this issue on Jul 20, 2004 ยท 56 posts


cedarwolf posted Tue, 20 July 2004 at 11:03 AM

Y'know, Gary Larson, one of the most innoffensive artists I know of, had a cartoon pulled because one person thought it was sexual in content. It was a dog on top of an overturned car, howling its success at the capture of the car, and one viewer thought the dog was doing rude things to the car. Objectivity and subjectivity are dangerous double-edged swords. J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" has been banned in many schools because of purported "innappropriate sexual content" but, as a teacher of English and literature, I've yet to find it. But then again, I taught in a school two years ago where "To Kill a Mockingbird" was banned because it was supposedly a text for racist doctrine. I've been smacked by the moderators for violations of the TOS myself, and I had to print the darned thing out and go over it carefully to try to understand what was wrong with my image, but it all comes down to this: They own the site, they can make whatever decisions they want because they provide the service for free. The "new golden rule: The person with the gold makes the rules." Always good to remember along with the saying that goes "anything that is free is worth exactly what you pay for it."