[Foundation-l] Sexual harassment in Wikipedia

[Jeffrey V. Merkey]

It certainly falls under a variety of state laws regarding stalking and 
online harrassment, and possibly solicitation as well.

Jeff

Titoxd at Wikimedia wrote:

>I'm not entirely sure that a random user of an online site qualifies as an
>employee of any site, so I don't think that *workplace* sexual harassment
>laws have anything to do with this case. After all the commotion lately with
>MySpace, it seems quite real that these situations do have some sort of
>legal backing under some sort of sexual harassment statute, although IANAL.
>In many of these cases, it is just safer to report the case, and if the
>police asks for anything, just provide them access to the Apache and Recent
>Changes logs.
>
>Titoxd.
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>THD wrote:
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>>Hi, Everyone,
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>>Yesterday, one guy registered an offensive username, "Rape XXX" (XXX is a
>>female wikipedian's name in real life, but I want to kept the victim
>>anonymous here) in Chinese Wikipedia, and this guy left a message on the
>>female's user talk page: "You are in my sexual fantasy. Are you a virgin?"
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>>was furious about this guy's action and sexual harassment speech. I have
>>blocked this id forever, and I also suggested the female user to report to
>>police office. I want to know is there any policy on this issue? In this
>>kind of situation, will the Foundation cooperate with different countries'
>>police authority, and reveal the user log record to the authority?
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>>Thanks.
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>>THD
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>In the United States, sexual harassment and sexually hostile work 
>environment claims require that:
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>1. The company/organization have more than 15 employees or its exempt 
>from compliance with Federal EEOC Laws.
>2. The subject of the harassment must be an employee who reports to the 
>person doing the harassment.
>3. Any employee, irregardless of reporting structure can make claims of 
>sexually hostile work environment, but the damages
>are a lot less.
>4. Damages are statutory for sexual harassment claims.
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>An online forum cannot make claims of sexual harassment or enforce such 
>claims. If anything, its a violation of site policy and may
>qualify as stalking or obscenity, but its not sexual harassment under US 
>Law.
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>Jeff
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