[Foundation-l] No rights to participate

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/22/2011 9:31:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
fredbaud at fairpoint.net writes:


> Legally, Wikipedia is private property belonging to a nonprofit
> corporation. If the United States government, or some other government,
> owned it and regulated it in such a way as to guarantee public access it
> would be a public website.
> 

My point Fred, is there is no such animal.  So calling something a "private 
website" is redundant, since all websites are private, there are no public 
websites.  Certainly there are websites owned by governments, but they are 
not public in the sense above that there is guaranteed access to *modify* 
their contents.