[Novalug] OT - Wikipedia and the art of censorship

Dan Arico dan_arico@aricosystems.com
Sun Aug 19 19:26:20 EDT 2007


On Sun August 19 2007 7:08 pm, Pete Nuwayser wrote:

> So my original point, i.e., what the author missed, is that the simple
> act of this kid has opened up a ton of questions, but if it wasn't for
> the open source methodology that built Wikipedia in the first place,
> we wouldn't be asking the questions.  Like, who owns history?  Who
> maintains it?  What determines that ownership?  If Wikipedia has to be
> completely publicly editable, who audits history?  Who decides what is
> reasonable, what is balanced and what is vandalism?
>
> Pete

Now imagine Wikipedia with DRM. Whoever controls the DRM gets to rewrite 
history as he pleases.

There's one open source project that is desperately needed because of 
this problem - open source text books.

Dan Arico

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