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

[Anthony]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> David Goodman 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?  Or articles about   people
>> that when written fairly inherently contain sourced strongly negative
>> content?
>
> I know of no one who has proposed any such thing.
>
Rereading what I wrote I apparently forgot to add "and libelous" to
one of my instances of vile.  I realized as I was writing this that
someone might misunderstand what I was saying in exactly this way.

But to clarify, I was talking about Encyclopedia Dramatica type stuff,
not neutrally and objectively covered unpleasant material.