Which is more likely to happen in some countries than others. Though, I do agree that it is a silly reason to oppose in light of his quite reasonable concessions.
-Dan On Feb 10, 2009, at 5:26 AM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote: > I would say the likelihood of him being the target of the Iranian > govt is > the same as him being kidnapped by some terror group and tortured > for his > access, which could happen in any country... > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Mido <mido.archit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> it doesn't make any sense that one could think of such a reason to >> oppose.if >> you trust his abilities and good reasoning, give him the extra >> tools to >> help >> as he's willing to do so. >> Also, he promised he won't do checkuser in Iranian projects which >> is the >> most critical power to misuse. >> this is a global project, you can't justify everything from only your >> perspective. >> >> Mido >> >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:20, Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >>> geni wrote: >>>> 2009/2/9 Ting Chen <wing.phil...@gmx.de>: >>>> >>>>> Surely is this a prejudice. Because there is no data that >>>>> support such >>>>> an assumption. In the eight years since the being of Wikipedia I >>>>> don't >>>>> know any such case happend on any Wikimedia project. >>>>> >>>>> Ting >>>>> >>>> >>>> Prejudice? We know Iran's record on human rights and we know Iran's >>>> record of responding to speech they do not like (calling for the >>>> assassination the citizen of another country for example). >>>> >>>> The available evidence is that the Iranian government is a >>>> potential >>>> threat and unlike western governments don't have to worry about >>>> annoying laws and bad PR if they try anything. >>>> >>>> >>> That's not the point we are talking about here. There are >>> absolutely no >>> data to rectify that the Iranian gouvenment would force a Wikimedia >>> Steward to leak personal privacies of other Wikimedians. That's the >> point. >>> >>> Ting >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> - Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/ "Share your knowledge" >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ >> foundation-l >> > > > > -- > Best Regards, > Muhammad Alsebaey > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l