Fuzzy Zoeller is perhaps best known for his racist remarks made during the 1997 Masters golf tournament when he made some derogatory remarks about Tiger Woods. He claimed he was misunderstood. Tiger forgave him but the comments made haunt Fuzzy. Now Fuzzy is upset because of some comments made on wikipedia. He wants to sue.
Fuzzy and his lawyers don’t seem to grasp how wikipedia works. The comments made against him have been removed but like many wikipedia articles may return. Wikipedia does a great job of identifying pages that are controversial, have been vandalized, or aren’t very good. If everyone sued every malicious item posted on wikipedia or the internet for that matter…..well you complete that sentence.
Fuzzy you just can’t do that. Maybe you should do what Tiger did back in ‘97….forgive. Or better yet, go change the article yourself.
Update: I see USAToday has referenced my post as well as included links to the official legal documents.
Well Said! Had a preacher do a sermon on forgiveness and forgetting. I think it’s time that maybe Fuzzy did a little bit of this as well.
While forgiveness might be good advice for Fuzzy, to me it’s more about allowing the truth to surface. Wikipedia is known for its neutrality and community effort to provide facts. Eventually these errors were fixed. I think it’s very difficult to get away with malicious statements over the long haul. Wikipedia, from my perspective has proven itself to be very credible when given time.
When a rumor is floating around and it’s finally made public, the truth is usually revealed. Not always, but the public nature of wikipedia and it philosophy of neutrality works pretty well.