[WikiEN-l] Indefinite block and desysopping by User:Danny

[Ray Saintonge]

Tony Sidaway wrote:

>On 4/20/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>We shouldn't examine that data, however. Very bad precedent, and poor
>>for privacy, especially since we aren't dealing with out-and-out
>>vandals here, but merely critics.
>>    
>>
>If the circumstantial evidence provided is valid, this is far worse
>than vandalism.   This is people in a position of trust abusing it and
>possibly exposing Wikipedia to liability for copyright infringement or
>defamation by causing such material to be published.
>
If the premise that the material is such that would expose its publisher 
to that kind of liability there would be no liability to Wikipedia if 
the material was removed shortly after the problem was discovered.  If a 
person subsequently abuses the material any liability would be on his 
shoulders.

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