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[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

Quoting Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at>:

> joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu schrieb:
>> Quoting Raphael Wegmann <raphael at psi.co.at>:
>>
>>>> There isn't much of an issue here of a moral panic. The people we
>>>> are dealing with, such as Brandt, Bagley and Barber will stop at
>>>> nothing until
>>>> they get precisely what they want out of Wikipedia or destroy the project.
>>>> There is no acceptable response other than to block them on sight.
>>> We won't stop before we get precisely what we want either.
>>> Though we've got the power to block.
>>> Sounds like a battle to me.
>>
>> If you wish to use that framework, you are welcome to. If it is a
>> battle, it is
>> a battle between those who wish to provide free, neutral information to
>> humanity and those who would see that goal either thwarted or perverted.
>>
>
> So we are back to:
> "Either you are with us ("good") or you are with the thwarted or
> perverted ("evil")." IMHO this is both wrong and way too simple.

Kindly don't put words in my mouth. First, I didn't use the battle 
language use
did. As I said above "If you wish to use that framework, you are 
welcome to. If
it is a battle..." Second, I did not assert that there was simple dichotomy in
action here. If I thought there was any such issue, I'd have indef 
blocked an T
and a few others a long time ago. None of that changes that Barber, Bagley and
Brandt are people who care only about destroying Wikipedia or perverting it to
their purposes and we must be ever vigilant against their attempts to 
undermine
the project.