[WikiEN-l] Threats made on Wikipedia
Andrew Gray
shimgray at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 17:42:18 UTC 2007
On 21/12/2007, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> > I think Jimbo himself has made it clear on several occasions that we
> > should take these things seriously. Instead, whenever these are brought
> > to AN / ANI, some people take it upon themselves to declare these as
> > pranks, or jokes. Is that really appropriate?
> >
>
> If you take them seriously (and everyone follows up) you end up with the
> FBI coming down on a 13 year old. If you don't there is a slight chance a
> serious crime will occur which you might have prevented.
On the other hand, you end up with the FBI coming down on a 13 year
old. In terms of preventing recidivism, this is fairly powerful...
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
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