[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia privacy concerns

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 4/14/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  There have been people who had visits from the police or got passed on
> promotions, fired or failed to get a job in the first place because of
> harrasment. I don't call that overrated. It has real world repercussions,
> but the harrassers hardly ever get caught.
>
> About that last line: Would blatantly censoring harrasment be a bad thing?
> We are already censoring illegal activities. It may be hard to prove, but
> harrasment/libel is just as illegal especially if it has effects on the
> harrased person.
>
> Mgm
>

Apparently, the case I thought I saw about this on either the mailing list
or WP:ANI is untraceable. Still, I believe we should prevent onwiki
harrasment rather than cure it after the fact. Linking to problematic,
libellous material offwiki should be allowed but only in a few
circumstances.

Mgm


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