German Killers Sue Wikipedia
It's privacy rights vs. free speech in a legal showdown between Wikipedia and two German murderers who say they've paid their debt to society. According to German law, they have.
Having already served their prison sentences, German law requires that their full names or images no longer appear in mentions of the 1990 murder of an actor. The editors of the German-language Wikipedia entry on the murder have already removed their full names, but they appear in the English version, and
the two men have sued to have the English changed. Wikipedia officials say it will take a court order to get them to change the entry. Wikipedia's general counsel said the site, which includes 12 million articles and is run by staff of about 30, "
doesn't edit content at all."
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