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Reminds me of a laugh-out-loud closing paragraph in a 2009 NYT article about the clash between Wikipedia & German lawyers over some infamous murderers' right-to
by gojomo 2y ago
Reminds me of a laugh-out-loud closing paragraph in a 2009 NYT article about the clash between Wikipedia & German lawyers over some infamous murderers' right-to-be-forgotten.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13wiki.html https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/us/13wiki.html
Read the whole thing for maximum effect, but for me it beautifully demonstrates the contrast between the USA/Wikipedia/NYT ethos of "the truth is always printable and your speech is by default 'on the record'" and alternate expectations elsewhere.
- realityking 2y agoWorth noting that both Germany’s highest criminal court and the European Court of Human Rights in the end decided that the people in question don’t have a right to get their names expunged from archives (or Wikipedia). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sedlmayr#Murder https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Sedlmayr#Murder
- whimsicalism 2y agostill, very limited speech rights compared to the US
- ajdude 2y agoHere's the archive link: https://archive.ph/5978 https://archive.ph/5978 It was well worth the read!