On 12/25/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 24/12/2007, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
Bottom line is wikipedia isn't a free speech zone. It is a project to write an encyclopedia.
Amen.
Free speech and writing an encyclopedia are not mutually exclusive.
But they really are, if we understand what is meant in this context by "a free speech zone".
The question here is "time, place, and manner" restrictions. If you want to advocate for racism (for example), you are certainly welcome to do so: just not here, not at Wikipedia.
Okay, the problem here is that that is precisely what wikipedia has been accused of, historically. Surely you remember the outburst of RK; his E-mail on the mailing lists where he said wikipedia was a Nazi site.
Having taken advice from his Rabbi, no less.
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