Charles Matthews wrote:
I didn't say anything there was libelous, or incorrect. My word was 'cheap'. I'm in the UK, we have an Official Secrets Act. Anthere disputes your claim on the 'illegality' of criticising the French government (we have had another ill-informed post on that). I'll leave aside what you said on Germany, for reasons well known in Usenet discussions.
These are _not_ the knock-down arguments you seem to think they are. They seem more like a blind need to hit back with anything at hand.
I have had the advantage of having worked in the USA for a year. Can I just make one point? Wikipedia is not, actually, about American national identity.
I don't care all that much one way or the other, personally, but I think the main point was that if we're going to suggest that the servers need to be moved out of the US because of a theoretical possibility of legal troubles over copyediting Iranian posts, then we need to be concerned about all sorts of other theoretical possibilities in other countries, including Official Secrets Acts, laws about insulting presidents, and so on.
In reality, we probably don't need to worry about any of these.
-Mark