At 21:56 +0100 10/4/07, Gary Kirk wrote:
"BBC Radio 4, I'm Brian Perkins. The headlines again: Jimbo Wales' claim to have created a free online encyclopaedia has been contested. By me..."
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***** Howls of protest as web gurus attempt to banish bad behaviour from blogosphere
Opinion divided over code of conduct meant to rid postings of offensive and abusive comments
Ed Pilkington in New York Tuesday April 10, 2007 The Guardian
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.
Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty
Perhaps it was inevitable. When two leading internet pioneers came together this week to propose a set of guidelines that would filter out offensive and abusive comments from blogs, they were met by a torrent of offensive and abusive comments.
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