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

[David Goodman]

Right, I asked the question not to quarrel or be dickish, but
precisely  to get the sort of reasonable clarification you just gave.
Thanks.

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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