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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
We were about to be smeared in all media as hosting hardcore pornography and doing nothing about it. Now, the correct storyline is that we are cleaning up. I'm proud to have made sure that storyline broke the way it did, and I'm sorry I had to step on some toes to make it happen.
I think that's fairly naive, actually. I'd rather suspect the story Fox (which seems to be your main concern) will go with is "We were right all along, they *were* hosting kiddie porn! Just look, they deleted it all after we exposed their filthy secret."
As I said earlier, your actions make us look guilty when we're not. If we had had a reasoned discussion about it instead of you wildly flailing at the "delete" button, then we could have actually pointed at [[Category:Pedophilia]] to demonstrate that we *don't* actually host illegal materials. On this, I am in complete agreement with Greg Maxwell.
There *is* cleanup to do. And there *is* PR to worry about. But your actions have been counterproductive on both issues. Give Jay a pat on the back for me next you see him.
- -Mike