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[Tech Eye - Latest technology headlines] "The Fox News campaign against Wikipedia has certainly led to some reactions, of course, but our Board and executive director remain in charge, and in fact we spent more time last week rolling out an interface redesign for Wikipedia than we did thinking about Fox News's attacks," said Godwin, stopping just short of rolling his eyes and saying ‘bovvered’.

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[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » p2pnet World Headlines: May 17, 2010: 1: and described Fox’s story as part of its “self-congratulatory anti-porn-on-the-Internet campaign”. “The Fox News campaign against Wikipedia has certainly led to some reactions, of course, but our Board and executive director remain in charge, and in fact we spent more time last week rolling out an interface redesign for Wikipedia than we did thinking about Fox News’s attacks,”

[Daily News| Latest Daily News About World News, Business, Tech and Entertainment] Wikimedia: 'Fox News's campaign against us is nonsense' | Daily ...: “The Fox News campaign against Wikipedia has certainly led to some reactions, of course, but our Board and executive director remain in charge, and in fact we spent more time last week rolling out an interface redesign for Wikipedia than we did thinking about Fox News’s attacks,” he said in an email to Dave Farber’s Listbox email group.

[Tech2Crave] Wikimedia: “Fox News's campaign against us is nonsense” | Tech2Crave: "The Fox News campaign against Wikipedia has certainly led to some reactions, of course, but our Board and executive director remain in charge, and in fact we spent more time last week rolling out an interface redesign for Wikipedia than we did thinking about Fox News's attacks," he said in an email to Dave Farber's Listbox email group.

[All Tech News You Need To Know] Wikimedia Confusion Swirls In Wake of Porn Charges Ӽ All Tech News ...: Contridictory stories are circulating after Fox News's pursuing of Wikimedia Foundation for hosting. about porn on Wikimedia servers, then followed up by contacting organizations that had donated to Wikimedia to ask them what they thought about it.

[Daily News| Latest Daily News About World News, Business, Tech and Entertainment] Vodafone to start selling Google Nexus One mobile - but prices ...: Mike Godwin, general counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, last night said the idea it is in chaos “is simply nonsense” and described Fox's story as part of its “self-congratulatory anti-porn-on-the-Internet campaign”. It then later reported that Wales had personally deleted some of the images, as well as recruiting editors to help him - meanwhile Fox also began phoning Wikipedia's donors, which include Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, to increase pressure on Wales.

[Daily Estimate] Wikipedia: The Prime Culprit in the Dumbing-down of Culture ...: In its purest optimal state, Wikipedia is often quite a correct, accurate and reliable compendium on arcane subjects of historical or scientific fact, such as the history of railroads, high-energy particle physics, or the biology of bees—that is, until degraded by mistaken individuals, those with an agenda, or outright intellectual frauds. One never knows and those who consult the source for a fact in our split-second world generally only consult it once, and cannot be expected to check back again and again to see the evolved text.

[Daily News| Latest Daily News About World News, Business, Tech and Entertainment] Lehman Brothers' golden girl, Erin Callan: through the glass ...: Mike Godwin, general counsel of the Wikimedia Foundation, last night said the idea it is in chaos “is simply nonsense” and described Fox's story as part of its “self-congratulatory anti-porn-on-the-Internet campaign”. Fox claimed on 27 April that pornographic images were accessible through the site, which bypasses adult content filters to allow Wikipedia to be used in schools.

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[Daily News| Latest Daily News About World News, Business, Tech and Entertainment] Police search home of Gizmodo editor over lost iPhone 4G | Daily ...: but did not turn up in Gizmodo’s hands until earlier this month, suggesting that the person who took it away from the bar (who has apparently insisted to Gizmodo that they called Apple to return the phone) did not making great efforts to return it. Nick Denton, the former FT journalist who is now chief executive of Gawker Media, which owns and runs Gizmodo, has said that the phone was acquired for money –

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[Unfair Park] Catherine Crier Takes a Dallas "John Doe" to Court Over ... Her ...: The main reason why I simultaneously complain of *and* exploit the anonymity practices at Wikipedia is because I FULLY TRIED to go the above-board, full-disclosure route, from the outset. For that honorable approach, I was harassed, insulted, called names, and banned for wanting to do that, even though I pointed out numerous times that it was completely possible for me (or any average Arbitration Committee member using an alias like "Sam Blacketer") to do exactly what I was doing, but under the cloak of anonymity, so why didn't Wikipedians tighten up the policies surrounding anonymity?

[Cricketdiane's Weblog] Strange Conspiracy in a Land of Freedom, Honor and Integrity 4 ...: [1] Excerpts from that study, dated August 16, 2002, recommend the creation of a super-Intelligence Support Activity, an organization it dubs the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG), to bring together CIA and military covert action, information warfare, intelligence and cover and deception.[2] For example, the Pentagon and CIA would work together to increase human intelligence (HUMINT), forward/operational presence and to deploy new clandestine technical capabilities.[3] Concerning the tactics P2OG would use,

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