[WikiEN-l] Mywikipediaspace

Tue Oct 3 18:12:35 UTC 2006

On 10/2/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/2/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What it appears Danny would like is a rule that people would have to
> > agree to such that they would behave.
>
> I don't know if thats what danny was advocating, but it sounds good to me.
>
> > But you can't legislate against
> > misunderstanding or malice. What effective penalty can we apply? We
> > can't even stop people editing if they really want to.
>
> You are correct that there are some bad people that we can't stop.
> But everyone that causes us problems isn't a judgement proof 14 year
> old kid jumping coffee shops...
>
> The reality is that a nontrivial number of our problem causers are
> corporations which don't have the sort of immunity which makes the TOS
> irrelevant.
>
> It would be really nice that on the third time some foolish
> advertising company calls us up threatening to sue because we deleted
> their drivel that we can turn around and say "No, we're going to sue
> you..." :)

Do you know a lawyer who'd be willing to take this on contingency?
Because that's the only way the Foundation would be able to afford a
lawsuit.

-- 
Mark
[[User:Carnildo]]