[WikiEN-l] Durova/!! matter now in newspaper.

[Bryan Derksen]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:49:28 -0700, Bryan Derksen
> <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>>>> For one, by ENCOURAGING the people to come forward and blow whistles--
>>>> not threatening blocks when they do based on a trumped up copyright
>>>> claim, ala the Giano think.
> 
>>> Oh brilliant, that will really help.  Why not unblock all the banned
>>> users, while we're at it?
> 
>> I really don't see how this follows. Giano wasn't a banned user and very
>> few banned users were banned for reasons related to anything like this.
> 
> Call me cynical.  Encouraging people to blow the whistle in this
> context seems to me to equate to encouraging people to publicise
> their grievance as widely as possible, without regard to privacy or
> harassment concerns.

Fair enough. I would hope that any mechanisms for supporting
"whistleblowing" would include safeties to reduce malicious or
inappropriate usage. I just don't want the rhetoric to go overboard on
either side, since most people really do have good intentions behind
their proposals.

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