On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Larry Sanger <
> sanger-li...@citizendium.org> 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
>

And don't forget
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Talk:Homeopathy/Draft&diff=prev&oldid=100448877
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