[WikiEN-l] Peodophiles and wikipedia

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 12/25/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
> > Tony Sidaway wrote:
> >> On 24/12/2007, Steven Walling <steven.walling at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Bottom line is wikipedia isn't a free speech zone. It is a project to
> >>> write an encyclopedia.
> >>>
> >> Amen.
> > Free speech and writing an encyclopedia are not mutually exclusive.
>
> But they really are, if we understand what is meant in this context by
> "a free speech zone".
>
> The question here is "time, place, and manner" restrictions.  If you
> want to advocate for racism (for example), you are certainly welcome to
> do so: just not here, not at Wikipedia.

Okay, the problem here is that that is precisely what wikipedia has been
accused of, historically. Surely you remember the outburst of RK; his
E-mail on the mailing lists where he said wikipedia was a Nazi site.

Having taken advice from his Rabbi, no less.

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]