"Jon" thagudearbh@yahoo.co.uk wrote in message news:20050709175125.81541.qmail@web25403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com... [snip]
Let me ask the question again - is Wikipedia a haven for paedophiles?
No, Wikipedia is a haven for **info**-philes. We crave information. What people then do with it is between them, their deity of choice, and the local ordnances and bylaws.
Thinking about X is not a crime. Doing X might be, and for certain values of X is almost anywhere in the world.
If so, I can see many parents banning their children from using it - to the detriment of us all.
To the detriment of said children: if parents are so stupid as to let their children surf the internet without adequate supervision, they might as well be letting them wander around their local red-light district (which is likely perfectly respctable during daytime) at midnight.
With great power comes great responsibility.
The Internet is one of the most powerful things anybody has access to these days.
Wikipedia might well be one of the most powerful things on the Internet.
Do the math.