On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Thomas Morton morton.thomas@googlemail.comwrote:
Give as a clear message, that Wikipedia/Wikimedia will never assist in hiding knowledge.
The day that Wiki*edia changes its mission from providing access to free knowledge to "enforcing our view of knowledge on you", would be a saddening day.
Tom
It does that already, in a lot of ways. As catholic as it attempts to be, the "knowledge paradigm" that Wikimedia represents is only a small sliver of the sum of knowledge in the world. That's just one way in which it enforces its view of knowledge; acceding to or refusing to filter content in any way is also enforcing a particular view of both knowledge and the world. It would do both sides well to approach this argument with a little less arrogance and self-righteousness.
Nathan