[WikiEN-l] Docs look to Wikipedia for condition info: Manhattan Research

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Tue May 26 20:19:16 UTC 2009


> On 26/05/2009, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
>> Wikipedia should not provide information that is likely to lead to
>> harm.
>> If there's a rule which says that we must provide it, then that rule is
>> wrong.
>
> Uh huh. And if it also is possible to use the information to avoid
> harm? What if it's only a tiny amount of harm, should it be removed
> then? And if not, how much harm does it take, and who gets to judge?
>
> In other words who died and made you head censor?
>
> --
> -Ian Woollard

We're all censors, we just vary with respect to what we censor.

Fred Bauder





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