[WikiEN-l] FYI: www.wikipedia.de does not longer redirect to de.wikipedia.org on a temporary basis

Fri Jan 20 14:03:42 UTC 2006

Matt R wrote:
> --- "Alphax (Wikipedia email)" <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Guettarda wrote:
>>
>>>While I don't know a whole lot about the law, and even less about German
>>>law, I find this baffling.  If it were a minor I could see there being some
>>>logic, if it was a living person I could see some sort of "defamation"
>>
>>issue
>>
>>>(although that would be stretching it).  I don't understand what the issue
>>>is here ("we don't want our family's good name sullied by linking it with
>>>him"???), and I most certainly don't understand what the legal grounds are
>>>for requiring the name to be removed.
>>>
>>
>>Nor I. Information wants to be free...
> 
> 
> And, weirdly enough, apparently members of the Chaos Computer Club are "deeply
> involved in the case" *against* de Wikipedia. If anyone is going to argue
> "information wants to be free", it's going to be hackers, right?
> 

If he was still alive I might be a little more understanding of their
case, but this is just silly... the Law really is *a* ass.

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