[Wikipedia-l] foundation of a German registered association

[Ray Saintonge]

Peter Gervai wrote:

>Evan Prodromou wrote:
>
>>>>>>>"PG" == Peter Gervai <grin at tolna.net> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>and take
>>responsibility. It's pretty wishy-washy to try to have it both ways.
>>
>
>You didn't get the point. It's not about their willingness. It is about the
>differences of legal anvironment between US and DE. Maybe it's legal to talk
>about nazism in the US and maybe you get to jail for it in germany. Maybe a
>definite percent of Wikipedia articles legal in the US and illegal in DE. Do
>you want to get US WIKIMEDIA sued because they are present in german law
>environment? Do you want de-us.wikipedia.org and de-de.wikipedia.org for
>separating articles which are not legal in germany? Having a censored mirror
>maybe? (Bad words changed to stars? THere are funny ideas in the politics
>field.)
>
I doubt that "talking" about Nazism would be illegal.  It's "promoting" 
it that would be illegal.  One also has to consider that there are other 
German speaking countries, like Switzerland.  If this is a serious 
problem, rather than an imaginary one based on sombody's 
misunderstanding, one could create an intermediate boilerplate page 
containing something like the following:

        Reading the page [[Nazism]] may be illegal in Germany.  If you
    live outside of Germany or otherwise feel that this does not apply
    to you, please click [[here]] to continue.  Otherwise use the back
    button in your tool bar.

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