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post Tue 5th February 2008, 1:41pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1">Online petition asks Wikipedia to remove pictures of Muhammad
International Herald Tribune, France -14 minutes ago
By Noam Cohen An article about the Prophet Muhammad in the English-language Wikipedia has become the subject of an online protest in the last few weeks ...

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post Tue 5th February 2008, 2:03pm
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Wikipedia should not make deals with terrorists. Also they should not give into terrorism or the terrorists win.
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post Tue 5th February 2008, 4:35pm
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Wikipedia should not make deals with terrorists. Also they should not give into terrorism or the terrorists win.


Stop dragging terrorism into this. It makes you look like a moron. They are asking a corporation that publishes an encyclopedia to exercise editorial restraint in a manner that would respond to their values. Nothing more. You sound like a Wikipedian.
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post Tue 5th February 2008, 4:57pm
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QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Tue 5th February 2008, 11:35am) *

QUOTE(LamontStormstar @ Tue 5th February 2008, 9:03am) *

Wikipedia should not make deals with terrorists. Also they should not give into terrorism or the terrorists win.


Stop dragging terrorism into this. It makes you look like a moron. They are asking a corporation that publishes an encyclopedia to exercise editorial restraint in a manner that would respond to their values. Nothing more. You sound like a Wikipedian.


I agree this isn't at all about terrorism at the root (that there may be extremists threatening things has no relevance to peaceful petitioners), it's about honoring the wishes of (some/most/nearly all?) adherents of a particular organised religion.

The question I have is what is the right thing to do and what precedent does doing the right thing set? How big does a religion need to be before not displaying things that religion's adherents don't like is the right thing? I agree about the bad PR aspects of this but wonder what course would have avoided them.
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post Tue 5th February 2008, 5:40pm
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QUOTE(Lar @ Tue 5th February 2008, 10:57am) *

I agree this isn't at all about terrorism at the root (that there may be extremists threatening things has no relevance to peaceful petitioners), it's about honoring the wishes of (some/most/nearly all?) adherents of a particular organised religion.
Yup.

Of course.

Threats aren't part of the doing the right thing equation. They are however to be taken into consideration in doing the 'other' thing. I'm not making the threat myself - I'm simply saying that the 'other' thing raises the risk quotient.
QUOTE(Lar @ Tue 5th February 2008, 10:57am) *

The question I have is what is the right thing to do and what precedent does doing the right thing set?
Uh. I would have thought that doing the right thing set a good precedent. But color me naiive. Or too smart. OR something...
QUOTE(Lar @ Tue 5th February 2008, 10:57am) *

How big does a religion need to be before not displaying things that religion's adherents don't like is the right thing?
????????????? This isn't a rocket science issue, Lar.
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I agree about the bad PR aspects of this but wonder what course would have avoided them.
Check what the Supreme Court did. (hello?)
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Newsfeed   Online petition asks Wikipedia to remove pictures of Muhammad - International Herald Tribune   Tue 5th February 2008, 1:41pm
Disillusioned Lackey   Wikipedia should not make deals with terrorists. ...   Tue 5th February 2008, 2:08pm
Disillusioned Lackey   Lamont Stormstar: You know that the Supreme Court...   Tue 5th February 2008, 3:50pm
Lar   Wikipedia should not make deals with terrorists....   Tue 5th February 2008, 4:57pm
GlassBeadGame   I agree this isn't at all about terrorism at...   Tue 5th February 2008, 5:18pm
dogbiscuit   The question I have is what is the right thing to...   Tue 5th February 2008, 5:29pm
Disillusioned Lackey   I agree this isn't at all about terrorism at ...   Tue 5th February 2008, 5:40pm
Lar   [quote name='Lar' post='77335' date='Tue 5th Febr...   Wed 6th February 2008, 4:16pm
GlassBeadGame   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='77339' date='T...   Wed 6th February 2008, 5:11pm
Disillusioned Lackey   The idea that a lack of censorship = "we can ...   Wed 6th February 2008, 5:21pm
Cedric   Wikipedia should not make deals with terrorists. ...   Tue 5th February 2008, 6:22pm
GlassBeadGame   Wikipedia should not make deals with terrorists....   Tue 5th February 2008, 7:43pm
LamontStormstar   The illustration of Muhammed issue first came to n...   Wed 6th February 2008, 2:54pm
GlassBeadGame   The illustration of Muhammed issue first came to ...   Wed 6th February 2008, 3:14pm
Moulton   WWJD? Forgive. WWBD? Laugh. WWMD? Beats me.   Wed 6th February 2008, 3:52pm
Moulton   Let me see if I have this straight... If tens of ...   Wed 6th February 2008, 4:25pm
Kato   Let me see if I have this straight... If tens of...   Wed 6th February 2008, 4:57pm
dogbiscuit   Although I am in danger of spreading into basic ph...   Wed 6th February 2008, 5:00pm

 

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