a copyright violation is blocked yes this has happened but the current situation of wishy washy enforcement results in more people being able to get away with editwarring if they are right and more people being blocked because they are wrong Some have criticised the same thing happening in arbitration cases Those that wheel war on the side of good are congratulated or at worst ignored while those on the wrong side are desysoped Both applying things strictly and arbitrarily have their pros and cons On one side you have have idiotic decisions and on the other there is dissent from those that view various interpretations as unfair uneven or incorrect As the community grows and changes what works best may change What works best for a small business or a city council may not be the best for a Fortune 500 company or a national legislature Needs serious reform December 8 2007 at 3 44 am Wikipedia used to promote fascist propaganda GADGETS GAMES AT HOME BIZTECH SECURITY CONNECTIVITY TECHTIPS IT JOBS Wikipedia sued for aiding neo Nazis December 7 2007 11 14AM A left wing German politician has filed charges against online encyclopaedia Wikipedia for promoting the use of banned Nazi symbols in Germany Katina Schubert a deputy leader of the Left party said she had filed the charge with Berlin police on the grounds that Wikipedia s German language site contained too much Nazi symbolism particularly an article on the Hitler Youth movement The extent and frequency of the symbols on it goes beyond what is needed for documentation and political education in my view she told Reuters This isn t about restricting freedom of opinion it s about examining what the limits are Schubert said she had taken legal advice before making her move and that she hoped it would encourage public debate on how far internet platforms should be allowed to aid proponents of extremist anti semitic and racist ideologies There are signs neo Nazis are trying to take advantage of such structures and this needs to be stopped in good time Schubert said Especially given that Wikipedia is too important to jeopardise as an open and self regulating project A spokesman for Wikimedia Deutschland an organisation that promotes the internet lexicon in Germany rejected the charge We don t really know what Ms Schubert s problem is Arne Klempert managing director of Wikimedia Deutschland told Reuters What s important is the context the symbols are used in and here it s quite clearly education and documentation Anyone who tries to prevent the Nazi period being documented properly has a strange understanding of the world in my view Klempert said Because that s the best weapon there is to prevent something like that from happening again Public display of Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany but they can be used for educational and artistic purposes Schubert also came under fire from party colleagues Katina Schubert fails to grasp the self regulating mechanisms that work in Wikipedia Heiko Hilker a Left party media expert in Saxony s state parliament said in a statement Right wing extremism on the World Wide Web can not be tackled via national criminal proceedings he added Schubert said police would pass on the charge to state prosecutors who would decide whether to open an investigation Klempert said Wikipedia s structure which enables internet users to discuss and edit content ensured no bias arose Particularly on subjects like the Hitler Youth you can be sure it would be changed in seconds if it did show bias he said The Hitler Youth was the Nazis official youth organisation Reuters