Bryan Derksen wrote:
Jeff Raymond wrote:
Philippe Beaudette wrote:
Seriously, I know copyright is critical, but I can't help but think it was used as a means to the desired end in this case.
Thank you for saying what I was thinking. you've more than likely hit the nail on the head.
This is the problem with any policy that enables easy-to-make but hard-to-revert changes, it becomes a powerful bludgeon that is oh so tempting to misuse. There was a controversy over the use of BLP in this way just a little while ago.
One notable distinction is that the BLP debate involved deletions on a one-article-at-a-time basis. The current situation takes it further into mass deletions.
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