[WikiEN-l] Press coverage listing the HD-DVD key

Fred Bauder fredbaud at waterwiki.info
Fri May 4 14:10:43 UTC 2007


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Todd Allen [mailto:toddmallen at gmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, May 4, 2007 07:15 AM
>To: fredbaud at waterwiki.info, 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Press coverage listing the HD-DVD key
>
>That's not responsibility. As reluctant as I am to use the word,
>that's caving to censorship. I'm 100% for curbing any attempts to spam
>the thing all over the place. We don't tolerate spamming campaigns,
>never have, never should. At the same time, the NYT, Wired, and the
>like are hardly "the mob". They're reliable sources that we cite
>across hundreds or probably thousands of articles. And "reliable
>sources are in control" is, if not stated that way specifically, fully
>in keeping with our core principles. The real mob (or, in this case,
>thug) here is the industry organization trying to prohibit mention of
>a number. The message we send if we cave is "Thugs are in control, if
>they're potentially big and nasty enough."

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Fred





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