[WikiEN-l] Freedom of Speech in WP

[Marc Riddell]

on 1/30/07 7:00 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs at earthlink.net wrote:

> People who are good editors, but take other
> people's statement to heart, can get so upset that they no longer want
> to work in WP, and that's certainly a loss to the project. So the
> civility rule is partly about backing down to a level that reduces hurt
> and misunderstandings across a broad range of individuals.

Isn't this a rather paternalistic attitude? "We are censoring this for your
protection" is the first reason given by powers that would be.

Marc


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