-----Original Message----- From: Steve Summit [mailto:scs@eskimo.com] Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:58 AM To: wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

Fred Bauder evidently wrote:

A prominent person, popular with most of our users, can harass an editor who takes a political position most of don't like, on his website. If we do anything about it, other than ask him to quit, we would make ourselves a laughing stock.

Right. In particular, if we went out of our way to suppress links to the man's own website, we would make ourselves a laughingstock.

I must have missed something. Are there people seriously advocating that [[Michael Moore]] cannot contain a link to michaelmoore.com? If so, I'd say this proves beyond doubt that the policy-that-can't-be-called-BADSITES really is unworkable, that the bizarre repercussions which some have predicted are not only realistically possible, but have already happened.

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Obviously we need to make an exception for prominent people whose viewpoint we support. And by the way, I am not joking. Writing this down in black and white is important, if that is what we do in practice.

And, if it not clear, I support him too, although I am not enamored of anyone's propaganda. Even that which supports my own position.

Fred