[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

[Adam Cuerden]

(Sorry, ignore the last two sentences - they're left over from a previous draft)

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mr. Godwin, are you aware that, before Jimbo acted unilaterally, that
> a discussion of policy had been opened by him, and was proceeding
> towards something that had reasonable support, based on the legal
> issues that he implied were the source  of his hurry to do something.
>
> That was derailed by his actions, which also completely ignored the
> evolving community decision, and has been completely derailed as it
> turns out completely different motives (Public relations) were, in
> fact, the real ones.
>
> If you want policy discussions, first regain the trust of the
> community Jimbo lied to in what turned out to be a sham effort to
> develop a consensus policy about the reporting issues for photographic
> and filmed pornography.
>
> After actively deceiving us as to the reasons for a policy discussion,
> Jimbo needs dealt with, and someone we can trust to play fair and give
> us the actual reasons - and who won't pretend to be cooperating on
> building policy, then ignore every single bit of community consensus -
> because community consensus came down hard on the side of keeping
> artworks - before we can go back to trying to restart a policy
> discussion which began with active deceit of the community, first off
> as to the reasons, and secondly, that it was a discussion.
>
>
> We now are told this is a free speech issue.
>
> So what policy
>