[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

[teun spaans]

Adam,

could you please continue existing discussions instead of creating new ones
again and again?

kind regards
teun spaans

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:

> (Sorry, ignore the last two sentences - they're left over from a previous
> draft)
>
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Adam Cuerden <cuerden at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mr. Godwin, are you aware that, before Jimbo acted unilaterally, that
> > a discussion of policy had been opened by him, and was proceeding
> > towards something that had reasonable support, based on the legal
> > issues that he implied were the source  of his hurry to do something.
> >
> > That was derailed by his actions, which also completely ignored the
> > evolving community decision, and has been completely derailed as it
> > turns out completely different motives (Public relations) were, in
> > fact, the real ones.
> >
> > If you want policy discussions, first regain the trust of the
> > community Jimbo lied to in what turned out to be a sham effort to
> > develop a consensus policy about the reporting issues for photographic
> > and filmed pornography.
> >
> > After actively deceiving us as to the reasons for a policy discussion,
> > Jimbo needs dealt with, and someone we can trust to play fair and give
> > us the actual reasons - and who won't pretend to be cooperating on
> > building policy, then ignore every single bit of community consensus -
> > because community consensus came down hard on the side of keeping
> > artworks - before we can go back to trying to restart a policy
> > discussion which began with active deceit of the community, first off
> > as to the reasons, and secondly, that it was a discussion.
> >
> >
> > We now are told this is a free speech issue.
> >
> > So what policy
> >
>
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