[WikiEN-l] Getting hammered in a tv interview is not fun

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Sun Apr 1 05:04:06 UTC 2007


Bryan Derksen wrote:

>Slim Virgin wrote:
>  
>
>>We're going to have more than a major hole in our coverage if we lose a lawsuit.
>>    
>>
>Why? Aside from requiring us to take down whatever libelous
>misinformation we lost the case over (which we would want to do
>_anyway_), what limitation would it put on Wikipedia's coverage?
>
It's too easy to imagine a lawsuit, imsgine losing it, and use those 
baseless imaginary results as the foundation for newly restrictive 
policies.  Such defeatism ignores all the intermediate mitigating events 
that would need to take place on the road to a successful lawsuit. 

Ec




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