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Originally Posted by Gillianren
Further, I don't think the problem with "adult content" is the children per se, but the adults around the children. What I want for/from my kid is different than what some parents of my experience want, and what they want is different than what other parents want. The kids may be exposed to it; the kids may have been exposed to it throughout human history. But the parents are the ones who get to decide what websites are appropriate for their own kids, and if we have discussions with "adult content" (and, yes, I've been part of 'em, too, but it doesn't change how some parents think), some parents may decide that our site is inappropriate despite its highly educational content.
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Paragraph quoted in its entirety because it bears repeating. As you often do, Gillian, you cut right to the very core of the matter.
We have one heck of a "baby" here, and the less bathwater we add, the less likely some parent is to toss out the whole tub. From an outreach standpoint, those are the kids who might most benefit from learning science and critical thought from sites like ours.
If that means we need to take certain discussions elsewhere (politics, religion, ancient human-resources options) to remain accessible, that's not so great a price.
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Come to that, some people just use software that blocks any site using specific words.
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Phil once admitted in an interview (his first on Slacker Astronomy) that he started using the term "unaided astronomy" rather than the more common term for that very reason.