[Foundation-l] Pedophilia and the Non discrimination policy

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 19:07:09 UTC 2009


On Nov 29, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Anthony wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> Neo-Nazis are frequently banned for
>> disruptive editing as are many other aggressive POV pushers.
> 
> "All IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and
> its associates, broadly interpreted, are to be blocked as if they were
> open proxies."
> 
> Is that still in effect?  If so, whatever slippery slope there is, has
> already been begun.
> 
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The obvious difference here being this was a ban of IP addresses owned by a particular organization, not the people behind it -- the editors of the CoS are welcome to edit from their homes or anywhere EXCEPT the IP addresses that were disrupting the project.

An IP address is not a point of view.

-Dan





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