--- On Wed, 5/10/11, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Andrea Zanni <zanni.andre...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Blackout at Italian Wikipedia - What exactly does the proposed law say? To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Date: Wednesday, 5 October, 2011, 22:44
> Given that a Wikipedia biography is usually the first google hit to come up > for a name, it > doesn't actually strike me as *that* ludicrous. What Wikipedia writes about a > person reaches > more readers today than a New York Times article. As someone else mentioned > recently, > there is a responsibility that comes with that kind of reach. Saying that "we > don't > necessarily stand behind what our article says about you the way a newspaper > publisher > would stand behind an article of theirs" is frankly little consolation to an > aggrieved BLP > subject. Moreover, some people in Italy are quite easy in sueing: Wikimedia Italy is still on trial (in the person of her president) beacuse someone wrote something "bad" on the owners of a political newspaper. (and they asked us 20 million dollars...). Well, that *is* nuts. Moreover, the 48-hour time period and potential €12,000 fine in the proposed law are nuts (pity the blogger who has gone on a 2-week holiday). Yet that €12,000 fine is not mentioned in the it:WP statement. Being forced to include a statement in an article is less of an issue to me than the prospect of being fined €12,000 if it isn't done in time. *That* is where the chilling effect comes from, yet the it:WP statement doesn't mention it. Andreas _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
