[Wikipedia-l] Why have admins of unblock-en-l blocked me?

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 00:45:35 UTC 2007


On 09/03/07, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
>
> > Because you are a racist :-) You probably even deny the indigenous
> > status of the Ainu.
>
> I would hope that's not the reason... if we were to block people for
> holding objectionable opinions (even exceedingly objectionable ones), I
> could submit a very long list of names of people to be blocked,
> including many admins!

To paraphrase Harry Truman:

"[They] blocked him for continually trolling, not for being a dumb
son-of-a-bitch - which he was, but that's not against the law for
people on the internet. If it was, three quarters of them would be in
jail"
-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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