[WikiEN-l] Re: Arbitration Committee members granted checkuser tool
Fred Bauder
fredbaud at ctelco.net
Sun Nov 13 17:36:43 UTC 2005
His concerns certainly hit home with me. So I'm listening to him and
taking seriously the kind of damage that can occur.
Fred
On Nov 13, 2005, at 8:48 AM, Sean Barrett wrote:
>
>
>> For more details:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking With the checkuser
>> tool it
>> becomes so much easier.
>>
>> If you have ever met a political refugee, you know that they often
>> are
>> very careful not to talk politics with persons they don't know.
>>
>
> Oh, very nice escalation there! We now see that CheckUser is a
> tool of
> political oppression, if we're allowed to use it, people will be
> getting
> shot in the back of the head down in the basement of the Wikipedia
> server farm!
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