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 Rosenthal <swatjes...@gmail.com>: > 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 >> >> 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 about a living person >>> can be removed immediately by any editor. Here, if I'm reading right, it >>> was put back up again despite being repeatedly removed. >>> >>> Another aspect of this is that if there is a law around, even a disused, >>> rarely enforced law, the possibility exists that someone will evoke it >>> and put you into court with baleful consequences, even if you "win" in >>> the end. For example in Colorado there is a criminal libel law that >>> covers the dead, see >>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Defamation#Criminal_defamation >>> How one could fully comply with such a monstrosity as that is beyond me. >>> >>> Fred >>> >>> User:Fred Bauder >>> >>> >>>> 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 (semi-)protecting it. The text in >>>> question is merely a sum-up of various reports about the speculations >>>> eventually found to be a hoax. Non-logged-in user(s) from various IP >>>> addresses have tried to remove the whole controversy section, >>>> including not only the scandal but other arguments about him, >>>> replacing it with personal contrary comments and legal threats. The >>>> edits are consequently reverted by some users and rollbacked by one >>>> administrator. The admin, [[ko:User:Kys951]], is also accused of >>>> being an abettor just because he is an admin. >>>> >>>> In the South Korean legal system, criminal defamation is partially a >>>> "crime upon complaint," (ì¹œê³ ì£„/親告罪) which becomes irrelevant >>>> to >>>> be a >>>> crime when the complainant chose to withdraw the case. (Note that I'm >>>> not a specialist of law, especially in English terminology.) The >>>> police of Southeastern Incheon thought the case itself is too >>>> insignificant to be a criminal case and tried to persuade him to >>>> withdraw it, only to be declined. >>>> >>>> Song has reportedly demanded the admin to remove the paragraph in >>>> exchange for fixing the charge, which is definitely not the way how >>>> Wikipedia works. >>>> >>>> Another concern about this incident is that this could happen to every >>>> bit of contribution to the project. South Korean government had been >>>> censoring any scribble on the web they think beneficial to North >>>> Korea,[2] and for later on, anything they think "fraudulent" whenever >>>> the state is in "threat," according to an exclusive report.[3] >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ko/w/index.php?title=%EC%86%A1%EC%98%81%EA%B8%B8&diff=5832689 >>>> [2] >>>> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/shame_on_democratic_south_korea_for_censoring_face.php >>>> [3] http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/it/455022.html >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Ziko van Dijk The Netherlands http://zikoblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l