Fred Bauder wrote:
Editing material which originates in Iran, North Korea,
Cuba and other
nations with which most trade is banned without a government license may be
illegal. It is interpreted as aiding the enemy. No corrections of spelling
or grammar would be allowed under this interpretation, only use of camera
ready copy. Theoretically correcting a spelling mistake by Osama ben Ladin
would fall into this category of crime.
Is this a suggestion that the servers should be moved to a free country?
This potentially affects us as we can in the routine
conduct of business,
without even knowing, accept imput from these nations, from a user who
simply appears to be an ordinary user.
It would seem absolutely unwiki to discriminate against an individual
because of his national origin. The attitude of the U.S. regime against
his government has nothing to do with how we treat individuals from that
country. The flip side of your argument would have all of us outside of
the United States treat every American individual as though he were an
unqualified supporter of Bush and his cronies. I could not in good
conscience treat every American that I meet in that way, and you woulkd
do well not to treat individual Iranians, North Koreans or Cubans in
that way.
That being said, I know of no contributors to the Wikimedia family who
are from those countries, so the argument may be moot.
One could interprete this to apply only to input the
origin of which is
clearly identified.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/28/national/28PUBL.html?th
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