[Foundation-l] Native American Tribes Policy

[Jeffrey V. Merkey]

geni wrote:

>On 5/15/07, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>Wikipedia needs to exclude these fake tribe from the project.  Any of
>>these tribes can bring legal action against the Foundation, as can the
>>Federal Government if fake groups are allowed to claim they are indian
>>tribes, then use Wikipedia as a basis to claim credibility and break the
>>law.
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>Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. If that doesn't apply
>the foundation has other bigger worries.r
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Criminal liaibility is not exempted under this section. Better go read 
it again.

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Jeff