Generally I would agree, but it is the opinion of at least one editor
(who is a physician apparently, not a lawyer) that under no
circumstances is editing Wikipedia from a military computer considered
legal.
I'm curious as to the legal basis of his reporting requirement and
additionally whether there is a conflict between our policies on no
legal threats and a warning by an officer of a legal reporting
requirement to a NCO suspected of violating the law.
On Jan 2, 2008 1:29 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/01/2008, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Orangemarlin#Contacting_people.27s_e…
This is an interesting thread (one of a few on this subject, including
in the Jimsch62 (sp) RfAr) - two editors who are in the military/work
for the US government claim that it is their legal responsibility to
report to the USAF the use of a military PC to edit Wikipedia because
that is a violation of the UCMJ. I'm curious about whether that is
true, and if it is why we don't block .mil IPs from editing en masse.
Mike Godwin, do you have an opinion on this issue?
If the US military don't want their personnel editing Wikipedia, it's
their job to block it, now our job to block them. If they want us to
block them, they can contact the OTRS people and I imagine the request
would be honoured, though. Unless we're contacted by the appropriate
people, I don't see why we should do anything. The legal
responsibilities of US military personnel are not our concern - if
they have to report people, they should do so, but it's nothing to do
with anyone else.
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