On 6/6/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
I have to say I completely disagree with that. Maybe these things can't be quantified numerically, but I don't think we'll ever live in a society which can handle giving all information to all people. I forget who it was that said it, but someone in here mentioned that Wikipedia is fortunate to be constrained by certain external forces (mostly laws) which discourage us from truly printing every fact known to man. I'll add that Wikipedia's policy against original research and in favor of using reliable sources saves us from considering a lot more bad ideas. I'd hate to see some of the arguments that would go on without these constraints.
NOR and RS are to do with the information being correct not it's relation to good or evil.
The true information is generally legally fairly safe under US law exceptions would be
There is stuff that is obscene. Stuff that violates someone's IP Perhaps born secret stuff. Under certain conditions information the foundation itself collected Under certain conditions trade secrets Stuff that can't be released due to court orders? Probably a couple of other things I've missed
For the most part the law has little effect on what we want to do.