On 07/04/04 17:04, Fred Bauder wrote:
It's interesting that there is, on this list, at least, a lot of doubt. But in Rwanda, clearly, the mob was being egged on. And, of course, Hitler was the master at it.
To attempt Godwin's Law in reverse: does this proposed "hate speech" policy involve an alteration of the Wikipedia NPOV policy to any degree? Particularly on this issue.
I ask because, to steal a coinage from RK, a usable 'nazipedia' would actually be a very good thing. I've been working at length on [[Category:Neo-Nazi topics]] for this reason: dealing with these people requires as much active knowledge as is available.
Yet I already see people on VfD advocating deletion of articles on small neo-Nazi groups *on the basis that* talking about them is advertising them. Without their NPOV detectors being set off at all.
(Note that in practical Internet interaction, neo-Nazis are consistently really, really crap at sensible argument. Amazingly so. There are plenty of lucid Communists, but exploding neo-Nazi heads online is easy.)
I submit that this anti-"hate speech" policy proposal will become self-broadening and threaten NPOV.
- d.