wheatpenny opened this issue on Mar 21, 2005 ยท 425 posts
jcbwms posted Mon, 21 March 2005 at 6:04 PM
Comments: The TOS should function within the fashions of the day for the location in which the site functions lawfully. People who bring the concept of child pornography into a discussion of Terms of Service need to improve their ability to reason. Using the grand masters are examples is in error -- every day, in countries around the world, those very same master's works are subject to the same limitations in various wys by various people. The TOS needs to be rewritten to make it clear that often what the administration considers to be "genitals" are more accurately referred to as secondary sex characteristics. Young girls run around as often without their clothes as young boys. After about the age of 5, when body modesty kicks in, things begin to differentiate based on social mores of the locality. The obvious reason for such a change is that the issue of images with nude or partially nude children is becoming too challenging for the current administration team to handle. It was earlier noted that if the forums were closed, the place would become a ghost town. This is incorrect. THe overwhelming majority of the visitors here come solely for the galleries and never even wander into the forums. While thre would be some loss (perhaps as high as 20%), the site would continue on.