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Wikipedia Blocks Qatar [Updated]
GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country's sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qataris from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns about impartiality — the majority of Al Jazeera journalists operate out of Qatar, for example. This raises a number of issues about internet connectivity in small countries — what other internet bottlenecks like this exist?" Update: 01/02 13:32 GMT by Z : Jim Wales wrote in the comments that the story is 'completely false'. Either way, the ban has been lifted and anonymous editing is once again possible from Qatar.
and the wikipedia rules are a abused to no end - i stopped editing wikipedia because a group of religiously-motivated individuals managed to use the wikipedia rules to bludgeon every editor who came in an tried to increase the accuracy a certain article. they make sure a bunch of dubious-pro-that-thing research gets cited but almost no anti-that-thing evidence gets cited (there being more of the later, especially since the article doesn't give the body part in question the assumption of innate value every other body part right down to your earlobe gets, and this part is a erogenious zone!).
no, wikipedia is not about accuracy, it's about consensus. Consensus in a community of genital mutilators would be that genital mutilation is good and justified, consensus in a fascism regime is that fascism is good, consensus in a cult is that there was a space ship following hale-bop. Consensus and reality are OFTEN two different things.
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Obviously you know little to nothing of purple turtle mats, which are relevant to almost every story, ever.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
it is not that aricle, but it was a good guess
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You implied that since i didn't go into detail that detail didn't exist, that's completely different than burdeon of proof in a logical debate. Don't backtrack and claim that your backtracking was your initial position.
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