[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Legal obligation to report Wikipedia editor under UCMJ (Mike G weigh in?)
Thomas Dalton
thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Wed Jan 2 19:28:34 UTC 2008
> 1) Are we under an obligation to prevent obvious violations of the law
> when we are aware of them, as in the case of all military IP edits
> being illegal (or some similar situation in another part of the
> world).
1.1) Does some random person editing under a pseudonym telling us so
constitute "being aware"?
> 2) Can editors with an affirmative legal obligation warn other editors
> of this obligation and their exposure to it off-wiki? Is there a
> difference between warning them on or off Wikipedia?
If it's off-wiki, I can't see how it's anything to do with us.
> 3) Are the legal claims being made by OM, Jim62sch and others valid
> (with respect to their obligation, and the legality of editing by
> military IPs)?
Would need to ask a military legal expert, I guess.
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