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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] Libel chill
From:       "Steve Bennett" <stevage () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-04-21 7:42:16
Message-ID: f1c3529e0604210042g7ab08b28s15f832fd7967daf () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 21/04/06, Michael Snow <wikipedia@earthlink.net> wrote:
> First of all, a neutral encyclopedia article is not an unrestrained free
> speech zone, and I think the rhetoric of someone's freedom of speech
> being chilled is out of place to begin with. Second of all, it is
> entirely consistent with our mission to seek to "chill" content that is
> decidedly non-neutral and in most cases fails to provide verifiable,
> reputable sources for its assertions besides. Finally, in terms of

I would be curious to know - not necessarily with examples - whether
we have had legal threats related to articles that did meet WP:V. That
is, we published something which was by all accounts true, and had
verifiable sources to back it up - and yet was deemed offensive by
some miffed party.

Steve
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