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[ PRIVACY Forum ] French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer
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Sat Apr 6 15:33:17 2013
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 12:10:01 -0700
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French homeland intelligence threatens a volunteer sysop to delete a
Wikipedia Article
http://j.mp/16C8Cxn (Wikimedia France)
"Unhappy with the Foundation's answer, the DCRI summoned a Wikipedia
volunteer in their offices on April 4th. This volunteer, which was one
of those having access to the tools that allow the deletion of pages,
was forced to delete the article while in the DCRI offices, on the
understanding that he would have been held in custody and prosecuted
if he did not comply. Under pressure, he had no other choice than to
delete the article, despite explaining to the DCRI this is not how
Wikipedia works. He warned the other sysops that trying to undelete
the article would engage their responsability before the law. This
volunteer had no link with that article, having never edited it and
not even knowing of its existence before entering the DCRI offices. He
was chosen and summoned because he was easily identifiable, given his
regular promotional actions of Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects in
France."
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The return of "Vichy France" mentalities, apparently.
--Lauren--
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