Thomas Dalton wrote: > It's a democratically elected government making the laws > and those laws don't prevent free and fair elections, so it isn't > undemocratic. (Of course, an semi-official and unaccountable agency > like the IWF enforcing the laws is not a great way to go about it.)
Your addendum makes the point: Outsourcing censorship to a private body with no public appeal process is a bad idea. And the UK public noticed that now. Let's see if the incident has legislative consequences. But that is not our problem. On the other hand, a governmental agency with proper procedures and processes would have acted much slower in both directions. Self-regulatory bodies might be too fast in acting sometimes - but they are more flexible in reacting than governments as well. Ciao Henning _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
