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Wikimedia Censors Wikinews

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia Foundation Board (which controls Wikipedia and Wikinews) has killed off a Wikinews report into the Barbara Bauer vs. Wikimedia Foundation lawsuit. Wikinews is a collaborative news site and is meant to be editorially independent from the WMF. The WMF office also suppressed a Wikinews investigation into child and other pornography on Wikipedia, which was independently covered by ValleyWag and other outlets this week. The US Communications Deceny Act section 230 grants providers of internet services (such as the Wikipedia and Wikinews) immunity from legal action related to their user-generated content provided they do not exercise pre-publication control. In deleting articles critical of the WMF prior to publication, Wikileaks says the Wikimedia Foundation may have set a dangerous precedent that could remove all of its CDA section 230 immunity (at least for Wikinews, where the control was exercised)."

11 of 180 comments (clear)

  1. Do we need a WikiNewsNews? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    To cover news on WikiNews without censorship?

  2. OK... by Hankapobe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me get this straight. WikiLeaks is reporting that Wikinews suppressed an article on Wikipeida about WikiPorn? Now, the WikiInvestigators are ....I've gone cross eyed...

    1. Re:OK... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think, and this is just my personal musing, the wikipedia has become devalued as a source for unbiased information because of all the 'goings on' there.
      Really? I hear the personal typewriter has all but been replaced by the personal computer, too!

      What's next, telephones you can put in your pocket??
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  3. Why do I find this really unsurprising? by Velorium · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wikiwars 2008. Let the trolls and slander begin.

  4. Hmmm... by TheRealFixer · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, are we in the midst of a Wikiwar?

  5. Re:Wiki WikiWiki WikiWikiWiki Wiki WikiWik WikiWik by Eudial · · Score: 4, Funny

    That being aside, who cares? All this drama over an encyclopedia-like site. And it isn't even Encyclopedia Dramatica...
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  6. After reading the summary... by Dan+East · · Score: 2, Funny

    If I see the word "wiki" one more time I'm going to hurl.

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    1. Re:After reading the summary... by willyhill · · Score: 2, Funny

      You mean you're going to WP:HURL.

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  7. From the article: by lawpoop · · Score: 2, Funny
    From the article:

    It is believed the article was deleted because it did not promote Wikimedia, although the excuse used to do so, by Wikimedia counsel Michael Godwin was that it might be defamatory. So not only are we getting overloaded with wiki terminology, this case is also going to fall under Godwin's law!?
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  8. Re:Hmm... what to do... by LordKaT · · Score: 4, Funny

    If kids are at the point where they're looking up "autofellatio" on the Internet, then it's time for their parents to have a little chat with them about eggs, sperm, and how you shouldn't masturbate in your grandmothers hair.

  9. Re:Wikileaks by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hate Speech, Historical Revisionism, Extreme Let's add /. to the filter: Twelve years ago, the green bastards - those damn aliens from the disgusting, putrid planet Zytox - enslaved humanity to mine gold for their intergalactic empire.
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