On 11/14/05, Anthere Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
I think that if one chinese editor edit the english article on say... Tien An Men events, and a request comes from a chinese governement official saying you should provide private information about the editor, for the motive that talking about such a topic is violating their local laws, I will consider that any checkuser providing liberally such an information without first checking with the Foundation and its legal counselling, will be a violation of the tool use and of the trust put in the check user.
And I would never intentionally reveal such information without a court order specifically naming myself issued by a court with contempt power over me. And not until after I had challenged the validity of the order, and lost.
Any such challenge would be brought by my own counsel, rather than the Foundation's, unless the Foundation is also offering to insure me for any legal liability I might incur while exercising CheckUser privilege (which I doubt they are). Any consultation of the Foundation's counsel would be of courtesy.
That said, should I accidentially reveal such information, I will certainly resist being held to any legal obligation for such accident.
Kelly