[WikiEN-l] More crummy press? No thanks!

[Cascadia]

Indeed. $8 bucks (abouts there) gets you a domian, within minutes you can 
find a free hosting service (some ISP's offer web hosting), or you invest in 
a cheap hosting account... and what do you have: a license to do whatever 
the fuck you want. Of course, there are some American laws proventing Libel 
and stuff, but I do recall I read somewhere that a law to restrict porn on 
line was passed, and then part was repealed, leaving up the only part of 
that act that kept website owners from being accountable for anything on 
their website, even if it is libel or slander? (I may very well be wrong 
about this...).

Even if it is against the law, most websites out there won't get enough 
traffic to get on anyones radar, and if they do they've been up long enough 
to be cached elsewhere.

At any rate, I never listen to Kim Komando... or talk radio for that matter. 
I think we all need to consider the source.

-Cascadia

"Ryan Wetherell" <renardius at gmail.com> wrote 
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>I was listening to the radio this fine morning when Kim Komando's
> Computer Minute came on ([[Kim Komando]]).  She's had your common
> untrusting-media-type take on Wikipedia, but I think we've come to
> expect that.  Anyway, she dropped an absolute bomb today about a very
> "personal" matter.  It seemed that she had been alerted to on-and-off
> vandalism to her own article, Kim Komando, and that it was a lot of
> work to get it fixed, and she was now warning that *you* or *your
> organization* could be hit by hideous libel on Wikipedia next, etc,
> etc.  What really struck me, however, was her idea of Wikipedia's
> "inherent flaw", which was letting anybody edit any page.
>
> Isn't that the entire point of the project?
>
> Or how about this: isn't that an inherent flaw of the entire Internet?
> Anybody can buy a domain and say any horrible thing about anybody.  I
> think she (and the media by and large) is missing the big picture.
>
> --Ryan
> [[en:User:Merovingian]]
>
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