[Foundation-l] Eloquence #01 - libelous info

[Zack Clark]

on  Thu, 8 June 20:43:11 Erik Moeller explained

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See [[John Seigenthaler, Sr.]]. We publish potentially libelous
information alongside a huge collection of well-referenced quality
material, under the same logo, without any distinction for the reader
between one and the other. We make that information available as free
content, and allow anyone to scrape it off our site or download our
database, meaning that the libelous information gets copied all over
the place. Legally speaking, if Wikipedia didn't exist, no lawyer
would ever approve it.
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Thanks so much for your excellent example of the problem.
It leaves me aching to know:
1) How & why was WP structured so fragile in the first place?
2) What can be done to protect WP from this vulnerability?
3) Who is developing plans to address such issues?
4) Is any subject more crucial to our future??
5) What do YOU feel is the ideal solution?

Awaiting with bated breath,
Z.Clark