I thikn in general a community can set up rules to ban people. This could be a reason, apart from all legal implications. I do not see why legal implications would mean that people could not be banned. So that part is up to the community imho.
If the Foundation has an own reason/policy to ban them, that's indeed overruling enwiki policy. But I assumed that was not the case.
BR, lodewijk
2008/1/2, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
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.