National Security Letters have been served on Libraries. However, as we keep no track whatever off who is reading the site; it is hard to see how serving one on us would accomplish anything; we can't produce records we don't keep. I suppose a secret court order could be applied for which would require us to log readers and searchers, but that would be kind of dumb and unproductive.
Fred > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > >> Wikipedia is not a top traffic website from people editing. 99% of the >> traffic is reading/searching. >> > > Yes, and I as I pointed to the email written by Domas, that those logs > don't exist. > > >> >> We know that people's Google searches have been used against them in >> court. I'm not aware of any cases where Wikipedia searches have been >> used. But I can't imagine why they'd be any different. > > > Because one is a search engine and the other is an encyclopedia. If > someone > was researching ways to make explosives or looking for child pornography, > those are grounds to incriminate. Wikipedia on the other hand is an > encyclopedia. There is nothing illegal about going in to a library and > looking at a physical encyclopedia, nor should there be about Wikipedia. > > Regards > Theo > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l