Monday, December 8, 2008

Child Abuse

Wikipedia:
Up till now has been one of my favorites, but after reading this post on my Yahoo, I think I will do as the British have done and place them on my ban IP list also. Too save my soul I cannot understand this child abuse that goes on in the human race.
Everyone of us has something that upsets us and mine is this child issue. I myself can turn into a violent creature when I see someone abuse a child. It is a legal and moral concern of mine and I think these criminals should be dwelt with in a barbaric public display of human disdain for their action, I could easily cast the first stone at a known and convicted repeat offender.
Below is the article that has me upset If you want to see the picture look it up for yourself I wont post it on my sites.

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia any unemployed Internet commenter can edit, has been banned by British Internet service providers over a display of child porn.
Free-speech zealots among Wikipedia's volunteer editors have insisted that the original cover of Virgin Killer, a 1976 album by German heavy metal band the Scorpions — shown here with a teddy-bear bowdlerization — must run alongside the site's page for the album. Their stubbornness has landed the Wikipedia page on a list of porn sites maintained by Internet Watch, a British group, whose censorship recommendations many British ISPs follow.
The ban seems like overkill, since it covers the album page, not just the image in question. But the fact that Wikipedia has let matters get this far speaks to the site's screwed-up culture. Erik Möller, the deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's nonprofit parent, has defended child pornography in the past. His extremist stance is mirrored by an outspoken minority within Wikipedia's ranks of editors.
The Wikipedian child-porn fetish is disturbing. But it's a sign of a much deeper problem. Wikipedia editors love to make up bureaucratic rules. It's part of what makes the site so intimidating to new users, and why bias and misreporting so often go uncorrected on the site. Knowledgeable people are scared away by the need to engage in time-wasting arguments with bored teenagers and obsessive Internet users for whom enforcing these rules is a source of cheap entertainment. Why Internet providers are banning Wikipedia pages instead of Wikipedia editors is beyond me.

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