>I believe what he's getting at is the fact that
the Wikimedia
>Foundation's database servers all reside in St. Petersburg, and the
>content on them is thus subject to United States and Florida law.
My own opinion that a discussion of what it is _legal_ in the United
States to advocate on userpages doesn't get us very far at all, since in
most regards, the US has the strongest protection for freedom of speech
in the world.
It's perfectly legal to do a lot of things that still amount to
preposterous trolling that can and should cause us to ask someone to
either knock off or leave the community.
We don't need to be tyrants about people's userpages. We don't need
extensive rules and regulations about it. But at the same time we do
need to remind people that, hey, this isn't a radical free speech zone,
and really, trolling others by writing the most outrageous things is
really pointless behavior.
--Jimbo
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