[WikiEN-l] On continued personal attacks,threats, etc.

[Ray Saintonge]

zero 0000 wrote:

>Obviously personal threats cannot be tolerated.  Nor can criminal
>libels. Both should be capital offences.   
>
That's an extreme penalty for that.  To be consistent with my general 
objection to the death penalty, I would need to oppose that.

>If some litigous person one day
>decides to sue WP for publishing a libel against him/herself, just the
>costs will close us down even if the case is weak.
>
They'll do that where many people would so no libel, and often without 
any reasonalble cause whatsoever.  We can do nothing to prevent that. 
 Censoring ourselves to conform with libel chill is a siaervice to free 
speech.  If something is true and factual we should not be afraid to say 
it.  We do still need to be able to know the difference between fact and 
opinion.

Ec