Wikipedia Explains Law on Use of FBI Seal Image to the FBI

This from Joe Peacock of Fark:

So, you get a letter from the FBI asking you to comply with a demand, or face "further legal action." Most people would be reaching for the Depends adult diapers right then, if they hadn't soiled themselves already.

But not Wikipedia. When the FBI sent the user-generated encyclopedia a letter demanding that the site take down an image of the agency's seal, the Wikipedia folks stood their ground.

According to the Wikipedians, the law that the feds cited only limits the use of the agency's seal to create fake badges or otherwise falsely represent affiliation with the bureau.

Wikipedia responded with what I feel is the best please-fornicate-yourself anyone's given another entity in the past 10 years: "While we appreciate your desire to revise the statute to reflect your expansive vision of it, the fact is that we must work with the actual language of the statute, not the aspirational version."

Wow. We'll be watching to see how this plays out. ...

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