Decency

Newspapers sites like to post thought-provoking images of interest to users on their homepages.
They also like to post thumbnail pictures that show some skin—photo galleries of hot lifeguards Miss World 2008 bathing-suit contest, and the Sptizer “girl” partying topless. Who wouldn’t click on like those or the graphic-content galleries of flood-ravaged Haiti or terrorist-ravaged Mumbai?

But if you think these images are indecent for a homepage, think again.

Web sites are held to many of the same ethical standards of newspapers where indecency and obscenity are concerned, meaning they can’t post obscene content—something “designed to cause arousal and lacks artistic, literary or scientific value.”

So bring on the bikini-clad ladies and bare-chested men.