On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com wrote:
Lilliputian nationalist form a network and come over to Wikipedia, turning the article about Blefuscu into a travesty. A lone Blefuscu native sees the imbalance and tries to address it, engaging in mediation and eventually arbitration. Afterward the Lilliputians successfully get the Blefuscuan topic banned because the Blefuscuan isn't adding to the imbalance of negative information about his own country.
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Fred Bauder fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
I'm afraid the proposal will work to the advantage of one side of the dispute, to the detriment of the other. One side is generally well educated and familiar with looking at both sides of an issue; the other is not, with no meaningful access to either education or sophisticated cultural memes.
Certainly is true that one side is nationalistic and self-centered and the other is undereducated and lacking in conceptual sophistication. But how does it help our discussion to to say either of these things?
-SV