On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, M. Williamson <node...@gmail.com> wrote: > Whatever happened to freedom of speech? Encyclopedia Dramatica is a > parody site. Plenty of people have tried to shut them down before, > it's unlikely to ever happen (and in my opinion, should never happen). > If they have an offensive article about you, trying to get rid of it > will probably make it worse. >
In almost any jurisdiction, freedom of speech has exceptions that include obscenity, defamation, certain types of hate speech, threats, etc. You can generally find all of those at ED; such speech isn't protected, nor should it be. Nathan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
