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

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Sun May 18 20:33:36 UTC 2008


On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:22 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> Libelous content is one thing; but as for "vile" --  there are a lot
> of vile things and people in the world, and we need to cover them
> objectively. Is it being seriously suggested the foundation intends to
> remove sourced negative content depicting evil aspects fairly and
> frankly when appropriate to an article?

No, I intentionally used the phrase "vile and libelous", and I mean
that as content which is both vile and libelous (although I'd also
suggest immediately removing information that is both vile and false
and presented as true, but not libelous under [[Hustler Magazine v.
Falwell]]).



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