[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia appears to be useful for something!

Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 16:34:16 UTC 2007


On 6/1/07, John Lee <johnleemk at gmail.com> wrote:
> One wonders how long before someone starts attributing sexual crimes to
> Wikipedia. "My son would never have raped that girl if *sob* he had never
> been on Wikipedia and learnt about sex! We must ban Wikipedia now before it
> hurts more families! Won't someone think of the children???"

Sounds uncannily similar to the Conservopedia "perspective"[0]
http://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Sex&diff=26713&oldid=26708

[0] I think they are taking the piss, despite the outward posture of
seriousness (hence the [[scare quotes]]).

—C.W.



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