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

[Geoffrey Plourde]

When a trained attorney says something could cause a lawsuit, generally they are right, and generally the best course of action is to kill the something in question before someone dashes to their friendly neighborhood U.S. Courthouse.


----- Original Message ----
From: Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 9:13:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: [WL-News] Wikimedia Foundation in danger of losing immunity under the Communications Decency Act

On 18/05/2008, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>  > As I explicitly said, it doesn't matter if you actually demand it or
>  > not, just saying there are legal concerns is effectively a demand for
>  > its removal.
>
>
> No, it is not.

Yes, it is. When a person in authority makes a suggestion that is
within the remit of that authority, there is no effective difference
between that and an order.

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