In case y'all missed this: ----- Forwarded Message ----- > From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" <priv...@vortex.com> > To: privacy-l...@vortex.com > Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2013 3:10:01 PM > Subject: [ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer > sysop to delete a Wikipedia Article > French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a > Wikipedia Article > > http://j.mp/16C8Cxn (Wikimedia France) > > "Unhappy with the Foundation's answer, the DCRI summoned a Wikipedia > volunteer in their offices on April 4th. This volunteer, which was one > of those having access to the tools that allow the deletion of pages, > was forced to delete the article while in the DCRI offices, on the > understanding that he would have been held in custody and prosecuted > if he did not comply. Under pressure, he had no other choice than to > delete the article, despite explaining to the DCRI this is not how > Wikipedia works. He warned the other sysops that trying to undelete > the article would engage their responsability before the law. This > volunteer had no link with that article, having never edited it and > not even knowing of its existence before entering the DCRI offices. He > was chosen and summoned because he was easily identifiable, given his > regular promotional actions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in > France." > > - - - > > The return of "Vichy France" mentalities, apparently. > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: > http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info > - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org > - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: > http://www.gctip.org > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy > Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com > Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: > http://vortex.com/t-lauren > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com > > _______________________________________________ > privacy mailing list > http://lists.vortex.com/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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