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On 19/04/07, Info Control infodmz@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
The admins are chosen and appointed by the community, not by the foundation. The foundation does not control the community.
If legally true, the WMF needs to say this and record it so that all admins know that legally they are on their own for any action they may take.
It is true; the Foundation is no more responsible for a user's actions than they are for a user's writing or a user's thoughts.* I don't know what legal force the Foundation restating basic facts would have, nor what point it would serve - surely any individual capable of functioning in society knows full well that they should be responsible for what they do?
Incidentally, your demands for this and that to be done for Dread Legal Reasons would be taken more seriously if, you know, you gave your name.
-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
* A caveat may apply for a very small fraction of users who do work directly "for" the Foundation - OTRS correspondents, say - but I wouldn't stake money on it, and those aren't who we're discussing