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

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> On 21/05/2008, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:

>> Other news organizations (in the U.S. at least) usually take the
>>  opposite approach, and refuse to take any action at all in response to
>>  frivolous complaints, lest that simply encourage more frivolous
>>  complaints. Certainly the New York Times wouldn't retract a story or
>>  remove it from their website, if they thought there was no legal problem
>>  with it, simply to "play nice".
> 
> You don't need to be so nice when you have several thousand lawyers.
> 

What? The New York Times has several thousand lawyers? If so,
at the very least the innocent mind is boggled by the idea it
feels the need to have them.

Yours

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen