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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)."

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  1. Re:Hmm... what to do... by McDutchie · · Score: 0, Troll

    You should probably look at the album cover and decide for yourself whether it's child pornography or not. Here it is.

    It is a naked child in a sexually suggestive position. That makes it child porn by definition, no matter what American "free speech" cultists say.

  2. Re:Hmm... what to do... by McDutchie · · Score: 0, Troll

    How was this ever allowed on an album cover?

    It was made in 1976. Pedophilia was quite in fashion back then.

  3. Re:Hmm... what to do... by McDutchie · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's art. Do you find it sexually attractive? I don't. It's normal to see a naked child and not be aroused, that's one reason adults look different to children.

    So do you think it's normal to force a ten year old to pose naked for the camera in a sexually suggestive position, for a public of millions?

    Would you want that to happen to your daughter?

  4. Re:Hmm... what to do... by McDutchie · · Score: 1, Troll

    What gives you the sick idea she was sexually exploited?

    How about the sick sexual pose that this naked 10-year old child is in?

    And why do you keep hiding from the two facts that both she, and her parents, agreed to the shoot?

    So the sexual exploitation for children for marketing purposes is perfectly allright as long as the parents agree to it?