[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WL-News] Wikimedia Foundation in danger of losing immunity under the Communications Decency Act

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sun May 18 11:29:26 UTC 2008


It's certainly possible (and I'm not saying this is what happened
because I have absolutely no idea) that the articles were being
developed by someone who interviewed people who work for the
Foundation, and that person was forbidden to submit the articles, or
told to remove some things.

On 18/05/2008, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm.  I don't know that it's possible to exercise pre-publication
> control when the article is live to the public the moment it's
> created...
>
> POST-publication control, such as removing libelous or offensive or
> questionable content, has been held to be protected under CDA and
> other legal theories.
>
> I think WikiLeaks are confused.
>
>
>
> --
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
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