[WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel R. Tobias [mailto:dan at tobias.name]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 07:21 PM
To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Is Slate an attack site?

On 11 Oct 2007 at 12:44:58 -0700, William Pietri 
<william at scissor.com> wrote:

> John has raised a legitimate question, one also unanswered in my mind. 
> You respond by impugning his character and/or his judgement -- in my 
> view, without cause or benefit. However reasonable it is to try to 
> suppress potentially harmful information on a small scale, your good 
> intentions have led you into a reductio ad absurdum position where you 
> are trying to suppress it on ever-larger scales.

"I frequently make the assertion that it's impossible to successfully 
censor the Internet by trying to remove materials that have already 
been posted publicly after they've attracted attention. What's 
published is published, what's done is done. The genie won't just 
refuse to go back into the bottle, he'll stick his tongue out at you 
as well -- or worse."
 -- Lauren Weinstein
    http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000279.html


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== Dan ==

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Still no reason to link to phony stuff. Google can do that. Not our job.

Fred