[WikiEN-l] When Websites Attack

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

"Daniel R. Tobias" wrote

> * Anti-pedophile site Perverted Justice set up a redirect based on 
> HTTP referrers so that anybody following links to any page in their 
> site from Wikipedia get redirected to a criticism page that blasts 
> Wikipedia for not cracking down on pedophile editors.  This made the 
> whole thing an "attack site" according to some who seem to think that 
> anything that has anything critical to say about Wikipedia is an 
> "attack" that must not be linked to.  

Question: What connection would there be between compiling an encyclopedia, and linking to any site which took the step of redirecting incoming links to somewhere not intended?

Charles


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