FINALLY!
The Supreme court granted Bail to Kappen. He was imprisoned since October
2020 under UAPA while reporting the Gang rape and murder or 19 year old
Dalit woman from Hathras, Uttar Pradesh. Everybody in India can be so proud
of this entire saga.
I hope Kappen (wanna be Kappens too) learned his lesson, and won't commit
any "Unlawful activities" like reporting gangrapes in holy states.
Regards
User:Praveenp
On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 14:19, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kaartic,
I don't think Trust and Safety or WMF legal has any practical value here.
I can endorse Vikram's view from my experience, when I interacted with both
of the teams about another extremely controversial topic which might very
well hamper the safety of the entire Indian Wikimedia community and can
destroy the life and reputation of volunteers. Practically speaking, if any
Wikimedia content is deemed illegal as per the law of the country,
currently we are all vulnerable and there is no existing support structure
which can take any step to convince website hosts to find any solution or
prevent this kind of unfortunate situation or provide emergency legal
relief or take out the volunteers from PTSD.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
On Mon, 10 May 2021 at 00:25, Kaartic Sivaraam <
kaarticsivaraam91196(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 10:56, Bodhisattwa Mandal
<bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I personally always felt that individual Wikimedia volunteers are
always in an
extremely vulnerable position. There is no legal support
system present in the Indian Wikimedia ecosystem to safeguard or prevent
Wikimedia volunteers from being harrassed by state or charged or arrested
for any controversial content present on Wikipedia. Although Sidheeq was
not charged for anything related to his Wikimedia work and to some people,
maybe his arrest has nothing to do with the Wikimedia community, but it
gives us a chance to think, what happens if this kind of incident happens
to any one of us with respect to any controversial content present on any
Wikimedia sites. I strongly feel that we need to build a good legal support
system sustainable enough to help volunteers in distress anytime anywhere
in India; the scope of such a support system can be defined or discussed,
but something should be there.
Forgive my ignorance and I could be misunderstanding but anyways,
shouldn't the Trust & Safety team be helpful for these situations?
Isn't it kind of their work to support Wikimedians in those cases? If
not, that team at least looks like the relevant people to discuss this
with.
Team page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety
Team overview:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety/Overview
--
Sivaraam
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