[Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Tue May 1 18:38:41 UTC 2012


On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard, you removed some relevant language:
>
> "Certain activities, whether legal or illegal, may be harmful to other
> users and violate our rules, and some activities may also subject you to
> liability. Therefore, for your own protection and for that of other users, *you
> may not engage in such activities on our sites*. These activities include:
> [..] Using the services in a manner that is inconsistent with applicable
> law."
>
>
> I think that expecting the ToS to condone violations of laws that are in
> some way "anti-freedom" is unrealistic. It seems like it would be difficult
> to craft language to do that well.
>
> ~Nathan

Would you like an opportunity to phrase that language in a sense that does
not suggest Wikimedia is in support of laws that are "anti-freedom"?

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