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THE CHAIRMAN of the People's Collective of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has called upon all his minions to heap praise upon Google for its defiant stand against China.
Wales twittered that Google's exit from China deserved a "Personal hooray". He said Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook should support the move as well as "free speech matters".
Like many Western autocrats, Wales has a long history of banging his head on the Great Firewall of China. The Chinese government had wanted him to routinely censor Wikipedia in a way fitting to Beijing.
However there is not much difference between China and Wackypedia. Wales might be pushing the fact that his public encyclopedia is a People's Utopia, but like China it is an authoritarian organisation run by a small elite.
Wales was upset with China for the same reasons that Stalin didn't like Hitler much. It was not up to China to decide what it ranked as knowledge and who was important. Wales feels it is up to him and his team of self appointed experts sometimes sporting fake doctorates to decide what the great unwashed need to know, and they often make people disappear if they do not find them notable enough.
Unlike the Chinese, who insist in tinkering with history to hide embarrassment, Wales has been accused of offering to tidy up your Wackypedia entry if you sleep with him.
Like Chinese apparatchiks who use their nation's wealth to keep them very comfortably fixed, Wales has also been accused of using Wackypedia as his personal ATM.
Despite getting lots of cash and support from Google, Wales set up a rival search outfit in the hopes that his qwack team of high-ranking experts would bring tears to Google's eyes. Of course it didn't turn out that way.
Fortunately for Wales, Google's anti-censorship stance does not apply to his glorious online encyclopedia. In fact Google gives a lot of weight to the views of Wikipedia in its search machine.
However if Google is going to hold the high ground on censorship it should lean on this jumped up dicatorship to mend its ways and get some real experts running things. µ
This article does not mention Apple... do you fanboys just have a script that automatically slags off everything Nick Farrell writes or something?
i find it funny, sense this is a blog, that you feel you must respond in full monstrosity of your current opinion, to the authors rant. thought i don't doubt that he is tickled that your all idiots, and members of the senate of idiocracy that is the wikipedia. lets account that i have several dealings with them, and i can say, most of what he says rings true. just cause he doesn't site a source does not make him a lair, its a blog, not a news link. now lets remove all your fanboi comments on grounds of violation of house rules.
next time you rant, be nice, or we will sensor you in the way that those unjust sensor the right.
Like censoring those damn bots like Drashek that keeps polluting the INQ comments with its useless babble, including the comments of this article.
Here at theINQ, my Credit Card Has NO Balance & No Limit, just authorizes Each Transaction, so FREE Press Isn't Encumbered. what if Wacky Wales published My Card Number, No Real Cost To Anyone, When printer Prints Money, Its Your Money, so Have that Pay for Own Press'd Pen.
OMG Jimmy Swiped Number:
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My God People Are there NO Restraints.
Written is Swedish, So Know must be SPY Thangee' as SPY Speak in forgein tongue so listener cann't Decypher. well Msr. Wales, Come forth will Debt to Society or Face Rail.
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