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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
According to you.
Tradition is not really an excuse for anything really.
If you're making arguments on this issue with someone who feels the photo should not be used because using a cropped porn photo is offensive or derogatory, those are the points that should be addressed. Another approach might be to address why it should be used instead of some similar image, but it seems you agree with me that there is no good reason another image couldn't be used.
In this day and age, and considering the model expressed so, there's really no reason to continue to use the image, no.