I heard from one editor, who shall remain nameless, that they had a lot to fear from certain people for political reasons and they edit anyway.
As we have seen with incidents in even democratic countries, even their officials, deep-pocketed litigators, businesses, or extrimists sometimes threaten or take a variety of hostile actions against Wikimedia contributors, bloggers, journalists, or members of groups that they dislike.
Pine On Oct 2, 2014 7:12 PM, "Marc A. Pelletier" marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 10/02/2014 09:57 PM, Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
I'm just amused by people that view making such edits anonymously as some intrinsic right.
I would expect that most of the people who (sincerely) feel strongly about a putative right to edit anonymously are more likely to be looking for edits about political topics than pop culture; few people are hunted down for spewing trivia about the Mousketeers, tarnishing the image of one's Glorious Leader might be more perilous.
Which is, IMO, a good reason to not attempt to do so.
-- Marc
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