Removing paypal etc would be equivalent to a statement "WMF supports wikileaks". Unless we would make that statement formally as well, this discussion goes nowhere. Much as I personally support them, this isn't WMF's business and can only harm the project to make a formal stand.
Individual users may wish to make a stand though. (without dragging WP/M into it). FT2 On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, aude <aude.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
