On 5/3/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
The proper response is to allow the number on Wikipedia, but ban its use as spam, not to completely ban it in any form whatsoever.
It is foolish for anyone with assets that could be levied on to display the number.
It is foolish for anyone with assets that could be levied on to host a publicly accessible encyclopedia that anyone can edit, where edits go live immediately. =]
We're reasonably well covered for random "someone came by and published something without our knowing". Same logic by which ISPs and so forth are protected.
When "we" can be shown to have known about the illegal behavior, though...