On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:37 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Jake Wartenberg > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not talking about "pedophilia activism", but instances where the > > individual in question is not disruptively editing. > > There are a wide variety of reasons to permanently block people who > were elsewhere identified (more commonly, self-identified) as > pedophiles but edit here apparently harmlessly, including bringing the > project into disrepute (Jimbo's wording, I think), the latent threat > to underage editors, that they'd have to be watched continuously to > make sure they did not start advocating or preying on underage users. > That sounds reasonable to me; but it should be made clear. We can't have a foundation policy that appears to contradict this, and if this is the standard we are going to follow it should be written down. > > The Foundation and en.wp community policies are generally to be > excessively tolerant of personal opinion and political and religious > beliefs, etc. We do not want to let one countries' social mores, > political restrictions, civil rights restrictions limit who can > participate and how. > > However, there's no country in the world where pedophilia is legal. > It's poorly enforced in some, but there are laws against it even > there. > There is a difference between having a disorder and acting on it. The former is of course legal. > > What it comes down to - the very presence of an editor who is known to > be a pedophile or pedophilia advocate is disruptive to the community, > and quite possibly damaging to it, inherently to them being who they > are and them being open about it. > > > -- > -george william herbert > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
