[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

fredbaud at waterwiki.info fredbaud at waterwiki.info
Sun Oct 14 19:27:21 UTC 2007


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs at eskimo.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:58 AM
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

Fred Bauder evidently wrote:
> A prominent person, popular with most of our users, can harass an
> editor who takes a political position most of don't like, on his website.
> If we do anything about it, other than ask him to quit, we would make
> ourselves a laughing stock.

Right.  In particular, if we went out of our way to suppress
links to the man's own website, we would make ourselves a
laughingstock.

I must have missed something.  Are there people seriously
advocating that [[Michael Moore]] cannot contain a link to
michaelmoore.com?  If so, I'd say this proves beyond doubt that
the policy-that-can't-be-called-BADSITES really is unworkable,
that the bizarre repercussions which some have predicted are
not only realistically possible, but have already happened.

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Obviously we need to make an exception for prominent people whose viewpoint we support. And by the way, I am not joking. Writing this down in black and white is important, if that is what we do in practice.

And, if it not clear, I support him too, although I am not enamored of anyone's propaganda. Even that which supports my own position.

Fred






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