On 12/7/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/7/05, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Frankly, I really don't get it. Siegenthaler is supposedly a defender of free speech rights. Doesn't he realize that making ISPs liable for content spoken by others would stifle free speech? Doesn't he agree that the ability to speak anonymously is absolutely critical to free speech?
I think, like a lot of people who grew up in an age when free speech was something only accredited journalists and their sources exercised, he preferred that system. Today's "everyone can be a journalist" Internet bothers a lot of people.
-Matt
I usually don't reply just to say "yeah", but yeah, that actually makes sense (which is not to say it's necessarily the right reason, but at least it's a reasonable guess).
I think we need to be careful not to give in to that thinking. In fact I see it as almost the antithesis of what we're trying to do. (Yes, some will argue that we're trying to create an encyclopedia, and that's it, but we will only succeed at this if we reach a consensus on *how* to create an encyclopedia.)
Anthony