On 20/09/2007, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
We should fight false accusations with truth, not censorship. By acting like a false accusation is a terrible, horrible thing, we conspire to make it shameful. Instead, we should be conspiring to make it a non-event.
William
-- William Pietri william@scissor.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:William_Pietri
Your argument reminds me of a debate about whether or not the names of rape victims should be published in the news. On the one hand, it was acknowledged that publishing their names made them vulnerable to further harm and abuse. On the other hand, some believed that not naming the victims stigmatised them, implying that the victims must have done something wrong to need to be protected and preventing the public from empathising with them.
You can read about it here: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3677/is_199904/ai_n8831490