[WikiEN-l] News agencies are not RSs

[David Goodman]

I usually consider that BLP should be used very restrictively, but if
there ever was a case where do no harm applies, it is this, not the
convoluted arguments of possible harm to felons where it is usually
raised. I would have done just as JW did (except I would have done it
just as OTRS) . I can not imagine being willing to take the personal
responsibility of publishing this. There is an argument otherwise, but
that's abstract, and people judge differently when it is not abstract,
but a known individual.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Gwern Branwen<gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Durova<nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gwern: see the Ken Hechtman example above.  In 2001 a Canadian journalist
>> who was held by the Taliban did have his life endangered by news coverage.
>>
>> -Durova
>>
>
> Yes, I read it. I don't think it comes *anywhere* near proving your
> sweeping proposition that this sort of censorship is justified. They
> claimed they were going to execute him and were doing mock executions
> before any news broke; after the news broke, they... went on doing
> naughty things. Yeah. Not a very good example.
> Sure, he may have 'thought' he had convinced them to let him go, but
> that conviction is worth about as far as one can throw it; I remember
> hearing that the Vietnamese and Iranian hostage takers liked to taunt
> their prisoners in a similar manner.
>
> --
> gwern
>
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