[WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress

[William Pietri]

In that case, we agree completely about the relevance of non-US law. The 
letter is irrelevant, but the spirit can be worth learning from.

Where we disagree is whether content can be malicious on its own. You 
and I agree that we should stop *people* from being malicious on-wiki. 
But I think we should allow people acting in good faith and with good 
purpose to discuss things that malicious people have said.

William

fredbaud at waterwiki.info wrote:
> The issue is malicious content, our concern regardless of legality.
>
> Fred
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: William Pietri [mailto:william at scissor.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 03:50 PM
>> To: 'English Wikipedia'
>> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BADSITES ArbCom case in progress
>>
>> Mark Ryan wrote:
>>     
>>> On 20/09/2007, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> But this is (a) wrong (at least in the case of www hyperlinks),
>>>> and (b) not relevant to a site hosted in Florida, USA.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It is relevant. Defamation under UK law happens where the content is
>>> read, not where it is hosted.
>>>
>>>       
>> Why exactly would we worry about this?
>>
>> The way I look at it, all non-US law is relevant only to editors working 
>> in those jurisdictions. If Britain or Venezuela or China believes that 
>> the public can't handle certain material, that is interesting, but not 
>> relevant to how we run Wikipedia.
>>
>> What might be relevant is the spirit behind the law. If the law gets 
>> made because of some particular harm that we think is worse than 
>> impeding honest discussion or the free flow of factual information, then 
>> we should take a look at altering our course. But the law itself is the 
>> business of the citizens under its jurisdiction, and not our collective 
>> problem.
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>>
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