Re: [Bug-gne]the problem of illegal content vs. freedom

[Jimmy Wales]

Mike Warren wrote:
> Why would you have personal guilt because of someone else's essay?

Mike,

I think that the point you are missing is that there is a big difference
between _censoring something_ and _refusing to support it_.

I support -- strongly -- the right of anyone to espouse their
political theories or historical theories or anything else.  But I do
not choose to support their doing it, not with my time, my hard work,
my money, my machines.  I think that many people feel this way, and
quite justifiably so.

I think it would be a terrible mistake for GNU to lend immediate and
direct support to evil ideas.  This is not about censorship.  If 
holocaust deniers wish to espouse their theories, we will do nothing
to stop them -- they can do it on their own time, with their own hard
work, using their own money, on their own machines.

But GNU should not serve articles advocating racism from GNU machines.

I think that the naive dogma that editorial oversight is censorship
really misses the point.

--Jimbo


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