An example of an actual prosecution: http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=20937
Fred > This seems to be an example of the trouble that the Wikipedia:Biographies > of living persons policy on the English Wikipedia is crafted to avoid, > unsourced or poorly sourced negative information about a living person > can be removed immediately by any editor. Here, if I'm reading right, it > was put back up again despite being repeatedly removed. > > Another aspect of this is that if there is a law around, even a disused, > rarely enforced law, the possibility exists that someone will evoke it > and put you into court with baleful consequences, even if you "win" in > the end. For example in Colorado there is a criminal libel law that > covers the dead, see > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Defamation#Criminal_defamation > How one could fully comply with such a monstrosity as that is beyond me. > > Fred > > User:Fred Bauder > > >> At most four Korean Wikipedians are charged with defamation of Song >> Young-gil, the Mayor of Incheon Metropolitan City. >> >> According to the contributors, the prosecution is upon the Song's own >> request, and is going to be over publicizing a fabricated sex scandal >> in the article about him and (semi-)protecting it. The text in >> question is merely a sum-up of various reports about the speculations >> eventually found to be a hoax. Non-logged-in user(s) from various IP >> addresses have tried to remove the whole controversy section, >> including not only the scandal but other arguments about him, >> replacing it with personal contrary comments and legal threats. The >> edits are consequently reverted by some users and rollbacked by one >> administrator. The admin, [[ko:User:Kys951]], is also accused of >> being an abettor just because he is an admin. >> >> In the South Korean legal system, criminal defamation is partially a >> "crime upon complaint," (ì¹ê³ ì£/親å罪) which becomes irrelevant >> to >> be a >> crime when the complainant chose to withdraw the case. (Note that I'm >> not a specialist of law, especially in English terminology.) The >> police of Southeastern Incheon thought the case itself is too >> insignificant to be a criminal case and tried to persuade him to >> withdraw it, only to be declined. >> >> Song has reportedly demanded the admin to remove the paragraph in >> exchange for fixing the charge, which is definitely not the way how >> Wikipedia works. >> >> Another concern about this incident is that this could happen to every >> bit of contribution to the project. South Korean government had been >> censoring any scribble on the web they think beneficial to North >> Korea,[2] and for later on, anything they think "fraudulent" whenever >> the state is in "threat," according to an exclusive report.[3] >> >> [1] >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ko/w/index.php?title=%EC%86%A1%EC%98%81%EA%B8%B8&diff=5832689 >> [2] >> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/shame_on_democratic_south_korea_for_censoring_face.php >> [3] http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/economy/it/455022.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
