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

[Thomas Dalton]

On 23/05/2008, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>  > On 21/05/2008, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
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>
> >> 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.

I may be exaggerating slightly, but I'm sure they have significantly
more than our one.