On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Ian Woollard wrote: > > > But if they do make demands about silence, it is our ethical duty > > > to... censor ourselves? > > Yeah, why not? Just because your enemy want something to happen, > > doesn't mean you don't want it as well. > > But it has some negative effects that they don't care about and we do. > > For instance, modifying our articles when a hostage is threatened > encourages > other terrorists to take hostages. How long until some terrorist demands > that > we alter our Jenin article to say that Israel committed a massacre, or else > they start executing hostages, now that we've demonstrated that we can be > coerced in that way? > I have a hard time believing you honestly see that as even a remote possibility. In the extraordinarily unlikely case that a psychotic terrorist takes someone hostage to effect a short term change in a *Wikipedia article*, I doubt our prior response to such pressure will figure significantly in his/her decision process. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
