Fox News has been poking its puritanical (and priapic) probe into the internet again. This time, Wikimedia were the focus of their campaign. Wiki is currently executing a large-scale deletion of what the Right-Wing news network refer to as “pornographic imagery”. Jimmy Wales, President of the Wikimedia Foundation, offered assurances that “educational images about sexuality” would remain, but there have been concerns among users that art, literature and images of historical artefacts could also end up being censored. After all, the standards by which Fox judges offensiveness are somewhat different to those of most people. Wiki’s Michael Snow said: “We encourage Wikimedia editors to scrutinise potentially offensive materials with the goal of assessing their educational or informational value, and to remove them from the projects if there is no such value.”

(Image below, quite appropriately, taken from a Wiki article explaining BDSM practices.)