QUOTE(dogbiscuit @ Sun 2nd May 2010, 8:29pm)
Seeing as Larry is here - hi, Larry, we've not been introduced! - perhaps he can outline what he hoped to achieve in simple terms, what he thought might happen if the police thought that there was a problem with Commons?
Hi dogbisquit and thanks for the welcome. If you don't mind, I'm not going to answer, because I don't want to play this game. If I say, "I expected that some people would be arrested," then the Wikipedians will howl that I was trying to get people arrested. If I say, "They'll just get a take-down notice," or "I didn't think about it," and instead somebody does get arrested, then later they will say, "Sanger acted irresponsibly, without thinking."
If, as I suspect, the intent behind the question is to accuse me of being irresponsible in serious matters, I'll simply say that I know very well that what I did was serious.
But then, what Wikipedia and WMF does daily with people's reputations and with respect to the law is serious as well. They have acted outside of the law and basic moral standards on too many occasions, and it's time they were held responsible for this. It gives me no pleasure at all to say this, but it seems necessary for the law to act in order to rein in their most egregious abuses.
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