I think that's true too; such things are very often used metaphorically. I think everyone here is clear that no one is literally going to be drug off in a white van by a balaclava-wearing goon squad from the WMF and sent to a gulag.
But the fact remains, those systems of justice are things we arrived at, via deliberation and over a period of millennia since at least Hammurabi, to determine how to fairly handle a situation where one person says "You have done something wrong", and they reply "No, I have not." We could do worse than to examine how those systems operate, why they have the procedural safeguards that they do, and what abuses led to those safeguards being proposed to begin with.
Todd
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:55 PM Dennis During dcduring@gmail.com wrote:
It seems perfectly reasonable to use metaphors based on legal systems, including human rights, in discussing these matters, which do, after all, involve rules of human behavior and their adjudication by authorities. Fairness and justice are constantly invoked in all sorts of everyday matters, from sports to baking.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 3:32 PM Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
I didn't put my words in your mouth -- I quoted your own words precisely, and the implication you were trying to make is obvious; so respectfully, please refrain from gaslighting here. I simply suggested dropping the hyperbole of "star chambers and kangaroo courts", "secret trials
punishing
people who don't know they're being accused' and "very basic principle[s] of Human Rights and dignity" over someone getting banned from a website over bad conduct issues. You need not reply -- I'm done with this
portion
of the conversation.
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:03 PM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulosperneta@gmail.com> wrote:
I have never said that this is a human rights violation, so please
don't
put your words on my mouth.
I have said that the general principles of equality, right to fair
trial,
not having ones honor damaged by baseless accusations, etc. which are present at the UDHR are being forgotten here.
Of course you may argue that since the WMF is a private organization,
they
are free to engage in this kind of secret trials, star chambers and kangaroo courts at will. As others already stated, the matter here is
not
if they can, but if they should be engaging on those schemes, as they
are
now.
Best, Paulo
A sábado, 15 de jun de 2019, 18:39, Dan Rosenthal <
swatjester@gmail.com>
escreveu:
There is no "very basic principle of Human Rights and dignity" to be
free
from the presumption of guilt by others. You may be confusing
Article
11
of the UHDR, but this applies explicitly only to "penal offenses."
Unless
Fram is getting locked up in prison for his actions, let's drop the
absurd
hyperbole that this is somehow a human rights violation.
Dan Rosenthal
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:35 AM Paulo Santos Perneta < paulosperneta@gmail.com> wrote:
People shouldn't be going with any random option, but rather
presume
the
innocence of others unless guilt is proven by some legit process. It seems that this very basic principle of Human Rights and dignity
is
being forgotten. There is not the least appearance of due process happening there,
but
that
has not stopped people from finding themselves their guilty part of election, using their own bias to evaluate the case. Including some Wikipedia related social network accounts that
should
be
acting more responsible and wiser than joining the rabble in the
offwiki
harassment of their guilty part of choice.
Best, Paulo
geni geniice@gmail.com escreveu no dia sábado, 15/06/2019 à(s)
17:15:
On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 00:04, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com
wrote:
> > If you really think Fram's framing of events here is even
plausible,
>
What you are calling Fram's framing appears to be a the WMF's
version
of events as told to fram. The WMF does look slightly better if
you
remember that T&S arw trying to improve behaviour through threat
of
blocks not file a diff heavy arbcom case.
>let alone the story
Given that the other versions of "the story" are T&S's PR waffle
or
conspiracy theories it understandable that people are going to go
with
the option that at least gives them something to work from.
-- geni
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