On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Larry Sanger <[email protected]>wrote:
> First, whether or not it really is, Wikipedia (like Citizendium and other > similar projects) ought to be democratic, open, and devoted to free speech > in a certain sense. The sense is that, as long as a person is generally > abiding by the rules of the community, he has a right to speak out in > public > forums, even if others find it "annoying." If a mob of others are outraged > at what he says, they have the right to try to refute him (under the same > reasonable rules); but they do not have the right to demand that he be > silenced. As soon as they gain such authority, the mob is de facto making > the rules, which is fine for people who love mobs, but absolutely terrible > for most of humanity and for anybody who cares about justice and other > things that cannot be made into silly acronyms. Pot meet kettle. http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Talk%3AHomeopathy%2FDraft&diff=100448194&oldid=100448185 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
