December 10th, 2007 @ 11:40 am
Charges Dropped
Lawmaker pulls Nazi symbol charges | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com
BERLIN (Reuters) - A left-wing German politician withdrew charges against online encyclopedia Wikipedia on Friday for promoting the use of banned Nazi symbols in Germany.
Wikimedia Deutschland had rejected the accusations and said the symbols were clearly used for educational and documentational purposes.
Did she want them to pretend it never happened? I don’t understand why it even seemed like a good idea to try to sue an educational / documentational website for educating and documenting something.
Fark summed it up well:
Far left German pol drops charges against Wikipedia for overuse of Nazi symbols in Hitler Youth article–presumably after someone explains to her it might be nice to know what this stuff looks like, in case it ever shows up again
