Commons Fornication

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In response to the Wikimedia Commons image controversy, after Cary pointed out how well the title fit. As usual, written following chatter on IRC. See also commons images.

Firewalls from China
Try to block the world's creations
Little girls from Sweden
Dream of main page consideration
And if you want some hot debate
It's Commons Fornication

It's knowledge of the net
And all of global civilization
It may have come from the West or East
at least it's stored in a single location
It's no big harm; our server farm
stores Commons Fornication

Treat your techies very well
To get sufficient caching
Celebrity skin (or kuro5hin)
gives every pipe a thrashing

Chorus:

    First born, nothing worn-
    Education? Soft porn?
    Fear of Commons Fornication
    Fear of Commons Fornication

Pose for me girl be the model for the world
Be the definite explanation
A small-town chick with a double-sided dick
Getting high on information
And put a barnstar on my memory card
It's Commons Fornication

Sex may be the final frontier
But it's made in a hobbyist's basement
Sanger can you see the nudes
getting loaded on pages and pages
And Flickrs come from far away
It's Commons Fornication

Made and kept by those who love
Freedom of information
Everybody's been there
For school or recreation

[Chorus]

Deletion leads to a very rough road
But it also spurs creation
As cameras are to a photo star
It's just a tool for innovation
And Jimmy Wales couldn't save the world
From Commons Fornication

Choose your battle to support
the stance that you are taking
"Build" or "infest"
There is no test
But this is what you're making

With apologies to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, 2010-05-14