David Mestel wrote:
Joe Szilagyi wrote:
Crux of the question, yes. Why do any rules or policies from 3rd party websites or services receive enforcement on Wikipedia?
I have a feeling that there may perhaps be some legal invasion of privacy issue - in the UK at least, it's illegal to record a telephone conversation without the other person's permission, and I wonder whether that might apply to IRC too (since it's sort of equivalent).
David
On 24/05/07, Gabe Johnson gjzilla@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/24/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Blu Aardvark wrote:
And of course the use of IRC quotes to discuss their content would qualify as fair use. But it's a bad idea. Those who are misusing IRC would continue to do so, but would simply move their discussions from open channels into more secluded channels. People, for whatever
reason,
don't like being held accountable for what they say on IRC.
Am I missing something here? People can be held accountable for doing
things
without reasons. If they continue the discussions in secluded channels, and then act on them, they are acting with no public reason, in effect
with
no reason at all. They can just be treated as acting with no reason.
That applies too. ~~~~
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IRC conversations in a public channel aren't a whole lot like a private conversation. They're more analogous to yelling across a crowded room.