[Wikimedia-l] Updated Terms of Use

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com, 03/05/2012 14:17:
> Encouraging people outside the US to live as though they live inside it, is neither wise nor ethical.

On the other hand, this is what happens (o could have happened) in other 
parts of the Terms of use which apply to /users/ (not their 
contributions) the USA laws where they're more restrictive. The whole 
section "Refraining from Certain Activities" has this problem, which is 
very hard to avoid given that nobody really knows what the "applicable 
law" is. There was a lot of work on this part as well, I'm not able to 
judge the results.
Both problems originate from the decision to enforce via a private 
contract the state laws (privatization of justice or statement of the 
obvious? I don't know). The old ToU left everything implicit (or were 
reticent, depending on how you see it).

Nemo