[WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

[Anthony]

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Larry Sanger
<sanger-lists at citizendium.org>wrote:

> First, whether or not it really is, Wikipedia (like Citizendium and other
> similar projects) ought to be democratic, open, and devoted to free speech
> in a certain sense.  The sense is that, as long as a person is generally
> abiding by the rules of the community, he has a right to speak out in
> public
> forums, even if others find it "annoying."  If a mob of others are outraged
> at what he says, they have the right to try to refute him (under the same
> reasonable rules); but they do not have the right to demand that he be
> silenced.  As soon as they gain such authority, the mob is de facto making
> the rules, which is fine for people who love mobs, but absolutely terrible
> for most of humanity and for anybody who cares about justice and other
> things that cannot be made into silly acronyms.


Pot meet kettle.
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