[WikiEN-l] Experiment on new pages

[Sam Korn]

On 12/6/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you post something libilus under US law (which is the only law that
> matters) and the person finds it fast enough they can get a court
> order and get the relivant server logs from wikipedia. If you don't
> log in then I'm afaraid we can't protect you from being stupid. You
> can't expect the foundation not to respect a US court order. As a
> result the fact is that under certian conditions posting something
> false on wikipedia could get you into legal trouble. It is important
> people understand this.
>
> The reference to authoritarian countries is a red herring. Assumeing
> you avoid local monitoring it is only US law you have to worry about
> because only US law affects the foundation.

Presumably the servers in Paris, Amsterdam and Korea would pose a
problem here...

--
Sam