[WikiEN-l] "I want to at least kill the responsible person."

Ben Yates ben.louis.yates at gmail.com
Mon Feb 4 09:56:19 UTC 2008


And of course, the article should warn people at the beginning that it
contains images of mohammad and direct them to the alternate page if
they don't want to see them.  Sure, some people are insane fanatics,
but others aren't; I think those are simple steps that would diffuse a
lot of this.

On Feb 4, 2008 4:53 AM, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates at gmail.com> wrote:
> We should provide an alternate "Mohammad" page without any images on
> it.  Telling people to edit their javascript is silly; most people
> aren't nearly tech savvy enough to understand what that even means
> (for example, they have to first understand that a web page can be
> displayed differently for different users).
>
>
> On Feb 3, 2008 2:33 PM, Angela Anuszewski <psu256 at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > On Feb 3, 2008 12:38 PM, James Farrar <james.farrar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 02/02/2008, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Still going. 68K now:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/removal-of-the-pics-of-muhammad-from-wikipedia
> > >
> > > I request they at least proof-read their petition. "holly figures"??? :)
> >  Did you expect academic excellence from a group that advocated censorship? :)
> >
> > Angela
> >
> >
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