On Dec 11, 2010, at 12:31 AM, Robert Tice <robti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I suggest that use of Paypal is contraindicated due to their > deliberate > efforts to inhibit the spread of information by closing their > account with > Wikileaks. It is inappropriate for Wiki to be associated with > Paypal or > Amazon.com. These corporations are the opposite of what Wikipedia and > associated entities hope to be or currently are. Closing the > account with > Paypal will also send a message to Amazon that there are > consequences to > efforts to censor the knowledge base of humanity. > > Thanks for reading this. I hope to see debate and action on this > proposal. I don't think we should stop using paypal because of this. WMF should not take a stance one way or another on the wikileaks issue other than to remind people that wikipedia != wikileaks and we don't run wikileaks. (most people I think understand but also think there is plenty of misunderstanding out there about this) Though it's a wikipedia policy, I think wp:npov should definitely be a guiding principle in this situation. Removing paypal would be a bad idea, in my opinion -aude PS - I do know that our credit card payments are also handled behind the scenes by paypal. > > Robert T. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
