[WikiEN-l] Suppression of links to 'attack sites'?

[The Cunctator]

Heh. When I started reading "Whatever microscopic benefit  can be (argued by
some) to be gained..." I thought it was going to followed by an admonition
that history shows us that greater harm invariably comes from the
institutional suppression of free speech and dissent than from allowing the
presence of "undesirable" speech.

Silly me.

On 4/7/07, Denny Colt <wikidenny at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/7/07, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> >
> > Recently, [[User:DennyColt]] has created an essay article,
> > [[WP:BADSITES]], that advocates banning all links to sites that are
> > considered to be "attack sites". <snip>
>
>
> Whatever microscopic benefit  can be (argued by some) to be gained by
> linking to a hate site like Wikipedia Review is immediately outweighed by
> the harm that place and similar pages create. They openly hunt for
> peoples'
> identaties. They have active Jayjg and slimvirgin hunting threads, and for
> others.
>
> Do you support that? How about harassment of others like mongo, and
> katefan,
> and phaedriel, and so on...?
>
> I have asked multiple people, can you think of a single GOOD reason to
> link
> to that site in particular, and got not one good answer, only strawmen
> arguments about censorship and mccarthyism.
>
> If you support inclusion of links to WR, shall we link to hivemind as
> well,
> and the encyclopedia dramatica wiki?
>
> --
> - Denny
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