[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

[Dan Rosenthal]

You're preaching to the choir here with me Sarah. I fully support that  
principle being applied, and not ignored. I was just pointing out that  
there's a policy based reason that allows us to say "You know what,  
lets quit blathering about this and do something about it", if we can  
grab our collective balls and do it.

-Dan
On Jun 9, 2008, at 4:46 PM, SlimVirgin wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I believe on English Wikipedia we have an arbitration finding to  
>> that effect
>> (MONGO 1), that says that we should support victims of harassment  
>> (which
>> stalking certainly qualifies as).
>>
>> -Dan
>
> We do have that ruling, but it's consistently ignored, including by
> ArbCom members. We allow people to use Wikipedia (posts to articles,
> to talk pages, to AN/I, RfCs, and RfArs) to harass others; and then we
> allow the harassment to be discussed; and then the discussions are
> discussed, all of which creates more harassment for the target --
> which is often the intent. It's a situation that has been going on for
> a couple of years and is only getting worse; it's the reason the
> cyberstalking list was started, but despite a lot of talk, there has
> been no fundamental change. The bottom line is that we have to stop
> giving people who have engaged in harassment a platform in the name of
> free speech and AGF.
>
> Sarah
>
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