On 6/4/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
It is not. A user named Saladin1970 was recently indefinitely banned by administrators because his political views was diametrically opposite to theirs.
Ai yi yi. I think you should take another look at this case. I see no reason to think that political views had anything to do with it.
Then I guess you missed the dozens posts accusing Saladin 1970 of being an Anti-Semite, Islamist and Al-Qaeida supporter? Did you also miss SlimVirgin's statement, part of which reads "If the Arbitration Committee hears appeals from every racist, anti-Semitic, and Islamophobic account that's blocked after 20 edits for trying to insert bigotry into Wikipedia..."?
Sorry, but I think it is you that should take a second look. It would be enough to just skim through the recent threads to see how vile and ridiculous (i.e: abumahza = Al-Qaeida) the motivations for indefinitely banning Saladin1970 has been.