Matt R wrote:
--- "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
Guettarda wrote:
While I don't know a whole lot about the law, and even less about German law, I find this baffling. If it were a minor I could see there being some logic, if it was a living person I could see some sort of "defamation"
issue
(although that would be stretching it). I don't understand what the issue is here ("we don't want our family's good name sullied by linking it with him"???), and I most certainly don't understand what the legal grounds are for requiring the name to be removed.
Nor I. Information wants to be free...
And, weirdly enough, apparently members of the Chaos Computer Club are "deeply involved in the case" *against* de Wikipedia. If anyone is going to argue "information wants to be free", it's going to be hackers, right?
If he was still alive I might be a little more understanding of their case, but this is just silly... the Law really is *a* ass.