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thekohser
post Mon 14th March 2011, 4:45pm
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A Wikipedia essay that tried to extend WP:BLP protections to articles about corporations was recently burned and scattered to the wind -- the "public" reason being the essay was created by a banned user. I think the "private" reason is one more familiar to us, though -- such a policy would fly in the face of Wikipedia's real purpose as the world's largest online defamation platform.

How can you tweak Crisco's nose, if you're going to be subjected to duty of care policies about corporations?!

Anyway, I have asked three administrators if they would issue me the contents of the deleted essay. One has refused, while the other two have not responded.

Is there a functional admin somewhere who could reproduce here the contents of the deleted essay?

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Thom Hartmann • Unequal Protection
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The legal rights of the defendant, Loan Company, although it be a corporation, soulless and speechless, rise as high in the scales of law and justice as those of the most obscure and poverty-stricken subject of the state.

— Excerpt from the judge’s ruling in Brannan v. Schartzer, 25 Ohio Dec. 491 (1915)


Evidently, quite a bit higher …

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thekohser   Are corporations people?   Mon 14th March 2011, 4:45pm
nableezy   A Wikipedia essay that tried to extend WP:BLP pro...   Mon 14th March 2011, 5:42pm
thekohser   I dont see what in BLP should not be applied to e...   Mon 14th March 2011, 6:03pm
Kelly Martin   Of course this is absurd. For a significant porti...   Mon 14th March 2011, 6:57pm
gomi   For a significant portion of Wikipedia's commu...   Mon 14th March 2011, 7:02pm
Sxeptomaniac   Of course this is absurd. For a significant port...   Mon 14th March 2011, 7:43pm
Jon Awbrey   One corporation trying to control opinion about ot...   Mon 14th March 2011, 7:06pm
Tarc   Is there a functional admin somewhere who could re...   Mon 14th March 2011, 10:31pm
thekohser   Thanks, Tarc. One very KnightLago of the ArbCom a...   Tue 15th March 2011, 12:04am
Somey   I would just like to go on record (actually, I bel...   Sun 20th March 2011, 12:38am
anthony   I would just like to go on record (actually, I be...   Sun 20th March 2011, 12:56am
Somey   Not at all? What does it mean for corporations to...   Sun 20th March 2011, 7:17am
Cock-up-over-conspiracy   Are corporations people? No, they are psychopaths...   Sun 20th March 2011, 1:04pm
anthony   Are corporations people? No, they are psychopath...   Sun 20th March 2011, 2:45pm
Jon Awbrey   Are corporations people? No, they are psychopat...   Sun 20th March 2011, 3:15pm
Collect   Corporations can be "defamed" and can su...   Sun 20th March 2011, 3:24pm
Cock-up-over-conspiracy   Aren't psychopaths people? Nah, sub-humans. Th...   Mon 21st March 2011, 2:21am
anthony   [quote name='anthony' post='271222' date='Sat 19t...   Sun 20th March 2011, 2:29pm
anthony   What WP really needs is some sort of new [i]guidi...   Sun 20th March 2011, 1:04am
EricBarbour   (I'm saying this based on an assumption that a...   Sun 20th March 2011, 1:49am
MZMcBride   Corporate personhood?   Sun 20th March 2011, 2:26am
anthony   Corporate personhood? That's one (or more t...   Sun 20th March 2011, 3:02am
Jon Awbrey   A Wikipedia essay that tried to extend WP:BLP pro...   Sun 20th March 2011, 3:48pm
Rhindle   Corporate personhood provides just the benefits of...   Sun 20th March 2011, 5:50pm
Milton Roe   Corporate personhood provides just the benefits o...   Sun 20th March 2011, 5:55pm
anthony   Also, corporations can be fined and even subjecte...   Sun 20th March 2011, 10:53pm
anthony   Why can't a corporation be prosecuted for mur...   Sun 20th March 2011, 10:41pm
Jon Awbrey   You Heard the Myth, Now Read the Reality — Corp...   Sun 20th March 2011, 6:40pm
Jon Awbrey   I think I once posted links to a couple of survey ...   Sun 20th March 2011, 11:44pm
Jon Awbrey   Ending Corporate Governance Timeline of Personhoo...   Mon 21st March 2011, 12:04am

 

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