[bksvol-discuss] Re: adult ratings Re: Re: Uh oh -- re weird, Adult rating

  • From: "Lisa Leonardi" <lml5280@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:30:05 -0600

Thanks, Guido, (or should I say Aloysius) for the smile.

I'd just like to say that I wasn't trying to start a debate on adult content 
and whether or not it should be in place.  I was just wondering why it is that 
a couple of books that I had marked adult did not have their adult ratings.  
Since bookshare gives the validator the responsibility to judge this facet of a 
book, I did just that.  Whether or not it's right or wrong for a validator to 
have this responsibility wasn't really the point.  I merely wanted to know if 
there was a reason for my rating being changed or if something simply went 
wrong in the upload process or what.  Sorry for creating the debate. (Smile)

Lisa
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Guido Corona 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:30 PM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: adult ratings Re: Re: Uh oh -- re weird, Adult 
rating



  I request -- no I actually demand -- censorship filters for the following 
categories based on hard-felt personal beliefs,, personal sensitivity, and 
political affiliation: 

  a.  Religion and spirituality. 
  b.  Romance. 
  c. Books that are too preachy. 
  c.  Books that are too short. 
  d. Books that are too long. 
  e. Books that are not well written. 
  f.  Books that I may potentially not like. 
    g. Books that are obsolete. 
  h. Books that do not adhere to the vision of the world that I want my child 
to agree with. 
  i.  Books that are not clearly Liberal. 
  j. Books on dieting. 
  k. Books on new age anything. 
  l. Books that my neighbours may like. 

  But,  just because I am so magnanimous,  I will stop short demanding that 
Bookshare be completely shut down.  I will allow for a least a couple of dozen 
books in the open collection,  even if I were not terribly impressed with 
content. 

  Regards, 

  Aloysius Q. Schmaltzenstein Gavronsky, (censor at large).

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