Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:49:28 -0700, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@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.