[WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

[Steve Summit]

William Pietri wriote:
> ...Neither you nor Wikipedia has the power necessary to achieve your
> goal in this case... Research and long experience prove that trying to
> suppress information both makes it more appealing and more persuasive,
> so your efforts aren't just in vain, they are counterproductive...
>
> Now Slashdot, a major tech news site, and Slate, a major general
> audience web publication owned by the Washington Post, have both
> mentioned this. It's time for all concerned to accept that the cat
> is not just out of the bag, but that the bag is in tatters and the
> cat has had a liter of healthy kittens that are now roving the alleys.
>
> [...and quite a bit more.]

Can someone print William's response out on real paper and post
it on whatever passes for a Wikipedia water cooler bulletin board,
for all to see, for posterity?  That was the clearest exposition
of the whole sorry mess that I have seen, and I think it ought to
lay the discussion utterly to rest.  Let's keep trying to protect
our editors from harm, but remove "at all costs" and "via futile
censorship attempts" from our arsenal.  It's time to move on.