--- "Alphax (Wikipedia email)"
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Guettarda wrote:
While I don't know a whole lot about the law,
and even less about German
law, I find this baffling. If it were a minor I could see there being some
logic, if it was a living person I could see some sort of "defamation"
issue
(although that would be stretching it). I
don't understand what the issue
is here ("we don't want our family's good name sullied by linking it with
him"???), and I most certainly don't understand what the legal grounds are
for requiring the name to be removed.
Nor I. Information wants to be free...
And, weirdly enough, apparently members of the Chaos Computer Club are "deeply
involved in the case" *against* de Wikipedia. If anyone is going to argue
"information wants to be free", it's going to be hackers, right?
If he was still alive I might be a little more understanding of their
case, but this is just silly... the Law really is *a* ass.
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