On 12/25/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 24/12/2007, Steven Walling
<steven.walling(a)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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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]