On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:11 AM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > --- 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.
Okay. You convinced me totally. That is beyond the pale. I suppose cool heads like we have here up north, just couldn't comprehend mediterranean "think with your balls, not your head, because they will be cooler" thinking. All support to the Italian strike, if the law was that moronic. -- -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
