On Jan 2, 2008 2:03 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/01/2008, effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com wrote:
I think, but i am not sure, that No Legal Threats is a local policy, and not a policy issued by the Wikimedia Foundation? So I guess you'd have to ask enwiki community in this case...
If we have some legal obligation to allow people to give such warnings (which would seem unlikely, but I guess it's possible), then it's not a decision for the enwiki community - consensus doesn't trump the law.
In principle, I disagree. You might have a legal obligation to spy on your neighbor, but it would not be illegal for WMF / enwiki to ban all people who do so from participating. It's our community, we can choose to categorically exclude everyone that does X, even if X is a legal obligation for some portion of the population of potential contributors.
That said, I don't think it would be reasonable course to take such sweeping actions given the current arguments.
-Robert Rohde