[Foundation-l] Legal requirements for sexual content -- help, please!

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Sat May 22 20:31:53 UTC 2010


WJhonson at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/22/2010 11:41:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> wiki-list at phizz.demon.co.uk writes:
> 
> 
>> <<The foundation or the site admins do moderate. The foundation or they 
>> DO 
>> have the power, to delete submissions that are considered  non 
>> encyclopedic, trolling, libelous and etc. There is constant moderation 
>> on by or on behalf of the foundation. If not teh Foundation then the 
>> admins have responsibility. The foundation is not acting simply as a 
>> hosting site that merely stores user submitted data. It is not godaddy, 
>> it is not wordpress, it is not even YouTube.>>
> 
> *Any* user has the ability to delete content.
> Is any user now "the foundation" ?
> That's not an effective argument for the responsibility lying at the top, 
> in fact you've just made the complete opposite argument.


So one can go in and delete all the images from wikimedia with impunity,
and as they are reuploaded, one can go back in and delete them again,
and again, and again, and again. Or are there mechanisms in place to
stop that from happening?







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