[WikiEN-l] Harassment sites

[Steve Summit]

Durova wrote:
> Here's one possible way to implement this that wouldn't relate to the NPOV
> policy: don't remove links, simply deactivate them.  The same information
> remains for anyone who wants to cut and paste the URL into a browser
> manually.

This is a nice-sounding compromise, but it strikes me as pretty silly.
It doesn't stop anyone who wants to visit the verboten page; it
merely annoys them, to no purpose.  It cements the notion that
banning the link is punitive, not protective.