{"id":3464,"date":"2013-03-29T19:39:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2013-03-29T22:49:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T02:49:40","slug":"the-unscrupulous-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2013\/03\/29\/the-unscrupulous-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unscrupulous Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy before they started <a href=\"http:\/\/mako.cc\/copyrighteous\/the-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-and-wikipedia\">harrassing and legally threatening<\/a> my friend Mako Hill.  But they are clearly an organization that understands neither cross-cultural communication nor diplomacy.<\/p>\n<p>There is also no possible outcome of this dispute that is in their favor.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Streisand_effect\">Streisand effect<\/a> can&#8217;t be reversed by filing law suits.  Filing law suits will never make a diplomacy institute look good.  And Wikipedia policy isn&#8217;t structured in such a way that it could ever have an article about them after this without mentioning the drama in the first place &#8211; even if enough editors one day changed their minds about notability. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Cory D. was thoughtful enough to put up a note about the case <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/03\/29\/group-whose-wikipedia-entry-wa.html\">on Boing<sup>Boing<\/sup><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had never heard of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy before they started harrassing and legally threatening my friend Mako Hill. But they are clearly an organization that understands neither cross-cultural communication nor diplomacy. There is also no possible outcome of this dispute that is in their favor. The Streisand effect can&#8217;t be reversed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211,14968,709],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-knowledge","category-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-TS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}