On 4/21/07, George Herbert <george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Look around. There are millions of websites (blogs, home pages,
YouTube videos, etc) out there with libelous material, much of it
blatantly false, out there for anyone to see.
...
Again: Wikipedia is not the worst place on the
Internet from a
perspective of actually protecting people's rights not to be attacked
or slandered, or at least to get it fixed if they are. It's arguably
close to the best place on the Internet from those perspectives.
Wikipedia is dramatically different from those other sites and types
of sites. Not only are Wikipedia pages about a subject far, far more
prominent than some random blog post or homepage about a subject, but
the Wikipedia pages are presented as fact, and not just the opinion of
some random guy with a Myspace.
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com