[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 23:15:40 UTC 2012


On 7 March 2012 23:08, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2012, at 23:03, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I think you have no grasp of just how far beyond merely "mainstream"
>> Wikipedia is.

> The answer being; Not much at all.


We're beyond mainstream and are now infrastructure. We're part of the
assumed background. Academia and museums come to us now. While I'm
sure someone can then say "and therefore we must filter", that's
asserting the claim for the *opposite* reason Andreas gives, i.e.
insufficient fame.


- d.




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