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Jimmy Wales To Become UK Government Adviser

Posted by Unknown on from the revision-wars-coming-to-a-government-near-you dept.

judgecorp writes "Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is to become a U.K. government adviser on open government. The unpaid post, announced at SXSW, will see him contributing ideas on issues including the single government portal open.gov.uk, among other things. Wales has been an outspoken critic of some government intiatives in the U.S., including the SOPA act on copyright — whose British counterpart, the DEA, is already law."

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  1. Please Read by GonzoPhysicist · · Score: 5, Funny

    How could they ignore him, just think of all the personal appeals he'll be making.

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  2. What I'm not looking forward to by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Invade Pakistan - a personal appeal from Jimmy Wales.

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  3. Re:Fucking wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    even if it's then ignored, is a huge step forwards

    I totally agree. We should send letters of thanks to the UK government .. might I suggest:

    "Dear PM,

    We, the peoples of teh internets, would like to offer our thx for your efforts to allow Jimmy Wales (our spiritual leader) to not be heard.

    We're not at all naive, and understand that this is a mere token jesture to placate the non blue-bloods, but nonetheless feel that this is a great step forward.

    Sincerely"

    How's that?