I think we're sort of getting off topic - perhaps the issue of legal
responsibility can be forked into a different thread? My own pet concern
these days is the issue of model consent and age verification on projects
and Commons. It is related to BLPs, but perhaps it would be better not to
distract from the core issue with other separate but related problems.
Nathan
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:14 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/3/2 Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com>om>:
Well, I could think of a couple people who might
be subject to
persecutions (depending on how serious Polish prosecution authorities
are...) :
- Administrators who were made aware of this on-wiki but declined to
react by removing the data
- Polish volunteers of the info-pl-OTRS queue who were made aware of
this via email and rejected to intervene
Is there likely a legal obligation to act?
Shall we exclude them all? (Note, this is all
speculation, but it's a
discussion worth having imho)
If administrators are subject to legal danger for *not* performing
given actions, their power to take those actions must be taken away,
for the protection of the encyclopedia.
I don't say that lightly, but I can't see any other way things could
be. I have a pile of special superpowers on en:wp, but if I were being
legally required to exercise them for reasons other than the good of
the encyclopedia, I'd be fervently hoping someone would take them away
without me actually asking them to.
What is the realistic legal danger of people being forced to take
actions on the encyclopedia just because they can, in Polish law?
- d.
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