[WikiEN-l] Another "BADSITES" controversy

Slim Virgin slimvirgin at gmail.com
Thu May 31 01:42:15 UTC 2007


On 5/30/07, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:
> Someone
> who commits libel or stalking can be taken to court and convicted,
> fined, even jailed. If Wikipedia Review is committing those sorts of
> crimes, the victims can pursue legal remedies and get a court
> judgment so that we have a basis for common agreement that WR's
> actions do indeed reach the level of criminality that those terms
> imply. Once someone has won a court judgment showing that WR has
> engaged in illegal harassment, I would accept a policy saying that
> Wikipedia should ban all links to websites whose owners have been
> convicted of criminal harassment against Wikipedians.

But only criminal harassment? Libel wouldn't be enough?



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