[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

Ting Chen wing.philopp at gmx.de
Tue Feb 10 08:20:27 UTC 2009


geni wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
>   
>> Surely is this a prejudice. Because there is no data that support such
>> an assumption. In the eight years since the being of Wikipedia I don't
>> know any such case happend on any Wikimedia project.
>>
>> Ting
>>     
>
> Prejudice? We know Iran's record on human rights and we know Iran's
> record of responding to speech they do not like (calling for the
> assassination the citizen of another country for example).
>
> The available evidence is that the Iranian government is a potential
> threat and unlike western governments don't have to worry about
> annoying laws and bad PR if they try anything.
>
>   
That's not the point we are talking about here. There are absolutely no 
data to rectify that the Iranian gouvenment would force a Wikimedia 
Steward to leak personal privacies of other Wikimedians. That's the point.

Ting



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