Florian Pesth wrote:
> History books clearly don't fall under this, if there is not a different 
> problem with the book, or the judge didn't follow the law (which would a 
> scandal on its own). Do you remember which case you are refering to? 

The problem is that when you let censorship go on in restricted ways, it 
gets applied in increasingly less restricted ways.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071207-german-politician-sues-unsues-wikipedia-over-nazi-symbols.html

Granted, he shouldn't have done that:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071211-german-politician-may-be-charged-over-wikipedia-nazi-dustup.html

But that doesn't help if you're already spending your money defending 
against the rancor of some politician that doesn't like you.


-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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