On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Mike Godwin mgodwin@wikimedia.org wrote:
My view continues to be that the Foundation should almost never engage in direct editing or removal of project content, except (as in DMCA takedown notices) when we are required to do so by law.
FWIW, I think that's an absolutely terrible decision that is the cause of a great deal of completely unnecessary ill-will toward the Foundation and its projects. The only semi-coherent explanation for it seems to be that it is required for protection under Section 230 of the CDA, but as you and I both know this is absolutely not correct. In fact, everything I have read on the matter suggests that the whole point of Section 230 of the CDA was to allow service providers to engage in direct removal of project content without becoming liable for that which it failed to remove.