On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb@gmail.com
wrote:
On 9/8/08, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I think BLP is more a moral issue than a legal one, the foundation is pretty well protected legally. The moral issues are less important for a site where it's clearly just random people chatting than a world-famous encyclopaedia that's at the top of Google results for practically everything, so I think things are ok.
Behavior which differs based on audience cannot possibly be a "moral" issue either. More of an image/self-consciousness issue, I'd argue.
—C.W.
This is not true in the least. There are clear ethical issues arising from the fact that a Wikipedia article on a living person will generally become one of the highest (if not the very highest) search-engine result for that person's name. Writing a Wikipedia article including derogatory information about someone is not the same thing as writing a comment on some other random website.
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