Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Fred Bauder
This seems to be an example of the trouble that the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy on the English Wikipedia is crafted to avoid, unsourced or poorly sourced negative information about a living person can be removed immediately by any editor. Here, if I'm reading right, it was put

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Fred Bauder
An example of an actual prosecution: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20937 Fred This seems to be an example of the trouble that the Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy on the English Wikipedia is crafted to avoid, unsourced or poorly sourced negative information

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread ????
On 22/12/2010 04:56, Puzzlet Chung wrote: At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. Another concern about this incident is that this could happen to every bit of contribution to the project. South Korean government

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Dan Rosenthal
The Colorado law has been significantly weakened in the past year. See Mink v. Knox, No. 08-1250 (10th Cir. July 19, 2010), slip. op. at 26. -Dan On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:51 AM, Fred Bauder wrote: An example of an actual prosecution: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20937

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Dear colleague Puzzlet, Thank you for passing through the information. Do you already have a large press reaction? And how about writing an English article about the person in question? I may know people who would like to translate into other languages. :-) Kind regards Ziko 2010/12/22 Dan

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-22 Thread Thomas Dalton
I expect a good lawyer can be found. The WMF might be able to help with that, they have lots of useful contacts. If even the police didn't think there is much of a case, they must stand a very good chance of winning the case. While it will surely be a very stressful and unpleasant experience for

[Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-21 Thread Puzzlet Chung
At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. According to the contributors, the prosecution is upon the Song's own request, and is going to be over publicizing a fabricated sex scandal in the article about him and

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-21 Thread Samuel Klein
Puzzlet - How unfortunate. Is there a lawyer available to advise the Wikipedians? - SJ On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Puzzlet Chung puzz...@gmail.com wrote: At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. According

Re: [Foundation-l] Korean Wikipedians charged with criminal defamation: a potential threat of censorship

2010-12-21 Thread Puzzlet Chung
I'm afraid not. (And I forgot to introduce myself - I'm [[ko:User:PuzzletChung]], a bureaucrat from kowiki.) 2010/12/22 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com: Puzzlet - How unfortunate.  Is there a lawyer available to advise the Wikipedians?   - SJ On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Puzzlet Chung