QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 30th June 2009, 8:08am)
QUOTE(anthony @ Mon 29th June 2009, 10:52pm)
QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Mon 29th June 2009, 8:19pm)
The point is, what is the policy? Who decides? Jimbo?
The owner of the servers decides the policy. In the case of Wikipedia, that means the board.
And yet the server owners (i.e. the WMF Board) who decide the site policy can't be sued when some idiot libels someone Wikipedia.
So long as the policy didn't cause the libel, they shouldn't be. Of course, in the case of the WMF, the lack of policy arguably does cause the libel, but I thought we were talking about what should be, not what is.
QUOTE(The Joy @ Tue 30th June 2009, 8:08am)
Jimbo really walks a fine line though on the Section 230 rules, doesn't he? As a WMF Board representative, he's not suppose to interfere on the "publishing" aspect of Wikipedia.
No, he doesn't. The popular notions of "the Section 230 rules" don't correspond to what the law actually says.