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

[Todd Allen]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Marc A. Pelletier <marc at uberbox.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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Perhaps the next time someone brings up the "WMF should accept ads!"
bit, we can point back to this thread to explain why when we respond
"That would be the end of neutrality," we are not exaggerating.

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