[Foundation-l] Steward elections: summary, week one

[Muhammad Alsebaey]

I would say the likelihood of him being the target of the Iranian govt is
the same as him being kidnapped by some terror group and tortured for his
access, which could happen in any country...


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Mido <mido.architect at gmail.com> wrote:

> it doesn't make any sense that one could think of such a reason to
> oppose.if
> you trust his abilities and good reasoning, give him the extra tools to
> help
> as he's willing to do so.
> Also, he promised he won't do checkuser in Iranian projects which is the
> most critical power to misuse.
> this is a global project, you can't justify everything from only your
> perspective.
>
> Mido
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:20, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > geni wrote:
> > > 2009/2/9 Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de>:
> > >
> > >> Surely is this a prejudice. Because there is no data that support such
> > >> an assumption. In the eight years since the being of Wikipedia I don't
> > >> know any such case happend on any Wikimedia project.
> > >>
> > >> Ting
> > >>
> > >
> > > Prejudice? We know Iran's record on human rights and we know Iran's
> > > record of responding to speech they do not like (calling for the
> > > assassination the citizen of another country for example).
> > >
> > > The available evidence is that the Iranian government is a potential
> > > threat and unlike western governments don't have to worry about
> > > annoying laws and bad PR if they try anything.
> > >
> > >
> > That's not the point we are talking about here. There are absolutely no
> > data to rectify that the Iranian gouvenment would force a Wikimedia
> > Steward to leak personal privacies of other Wikimedians. That's the
> point.
> >
> > Ting
> >
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Muhammad Alsebaey