On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: >> toddmallen wrote: >> >>> People are readily identifiable by the information given about them >>> anyway. How hard is it to find the Star Wars kid's name, even from our >>> article, where all the sources we use readily publish it, or a google >>> search on the article title brings it right up? If something is in >>> public already (which it by definition is, if reliable sources >>> available to the public have published it), it is no longer private. >>> You can say that's good, or bad, or simply inevitable, but it's still >>> the fact, and to think we can stuff genies back in bottles (even >>> provided that to do so would be desirable, an odd position for a >>> project specifically dedicated to making information available to >>> take) is monumental hubris. We're big, but we're not -that- big. >>> >>> >> >> (Off-Topic): >> >> And yet, see [[illegal prime]], and [[AACS encryption key controversy]]. >> >> >> Yours, >> >> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > > The idea is that we do the right thing regardless of what anyone else does. > > Fred > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >
Fully agreed. We provide information without bias, slant, or censorship, regardless of what anyone else does. That is the right thing to do, and that's what we do. Unfortunately, we don't always seem to do that anymore. -- Freedom is the right to say that 2+2=4. From this all else follows. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
