Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology

El Reg writes "Showing a new-found resolve to crack down on self-serving edits, Wikipedia has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology. According to Wikipedia administrators, this marks the first time such a high-profile organization has been banished for allegedly pushing its own agenda on the 'free encyclopedia anyone can edit.'"

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The encyclopedia that anyone can edit - BULLSHIT

[d_jedi]

That may once have been the case, but how it's far from it.
RIP wikipedia, we miss you.

as long as those people

[circletimessquare]

also allow freedom of expression

but scientology, as well as many other governments and religions, are openly hostile to free expression. this means the chomsky quote no longer applies

for example: i have no problem with a homophobic racist expressing their views, as long as they don't also attempt to silence nonhomophobic nonracists. as soon as they do, all bets are off

to express it logically: tolerance is not the same as tolerance of intolerance. in fact, if you tolerate intolerance, by proxy you are extending intolerance. logically, if you believe in tolerance, you must be intolerant of intolerance

for example: "i am muslim"

you must tolerate that

"i hate christians"

you must not tolerate that, in the name of tolerance

the concept of tolerance does not extend to intolerant beliefs. out of pure logic

many conservatives talk about the hypocrisy of leftists who are intolerant of conservative viewpoints while leftists demand more tolerance in this world. but this logically incoherent, since many viewpoints of conservatives, such as homophobia and ethnocentrism, are by logical definition intolerant beliefs, and, according to the principle of tolerance, must not be tolerated

its all about logical coherence. and plenty of times, you must, out of simple logical consistency, not tolerate intolerant belief systems