Re:Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia
by crux on Monday June 29, 2009 @12:59AM
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Wikipedia is officially large enough that all of the abstract futurist notions of the internet community about freedom of information are coming in contact with some really real-world roadblocks. It's one thing to imagine wikipedia (or whoever else) valiantly fighting against some repressive third-world government, and thus striking a blow for freedom, democracy and the like. But it's situations like these where the really interesting stuff happens.
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Exactly. By the way this example shows how people with good intentions on both sides of the conflict can fall into the frustrating state of edit wars. Add there the http://www.geocities.com/bigcslewisfan/ mechanis of corrupting those in power and it gets pretty messy (as the wikipedia review site can attest).