[Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under advertising pressure.

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 26/06/2012 2:02 PM, Kim Bruning wrote:
> Wow, thank goodness we never had advertising. The TV-Tropes wiki has been forced to censor a
> number of pages due to advertiser pressure.
>

And thus is the wisdom of eschewing advertizement and sponsorship 
highlighted for all too see.  I've always supported the model of yearly 
donation drives to avoid it -- occasionally creepy Jimmy pictures 
notwithstanding -- and this is the reason why.

We are, like it or not, in a society increasingly driven by marketeers 
and focus groups; being at the mercy of entities who care nothing for 
information or knowledge so long as their precious *image* is pristine 
is the norm, and Wikipedia remains a bastion of sanity in that sea of 
madness.

-- Coren / Marc