Delirium wrote
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
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The comments by RickK were aimed at supposed restrictions on freedom of speech, or freedom of publication, or whatever. It is a more than theoretical possibility that web sites based anywhere might have *some* restriction on content based on the laws of the land. But why is this is considered an argument? Locating servers that were theoretically subject to the UK's Official Secrets Act, which is a 'non-freedom of information' measure, might well be better than locating them in a USA where a wiki might theoretically might have to self-police to avoid any 'trading with the enemy' under the wide definition. After all, those posting official secrets to a web site probably know damn well they are doing that; while someone innocently editing a page that happened to be written by an Iranian gets 'criminalised' unwittingly.
Charles