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by toddmorey·14y ago·view on hn ↗
The worst part of the article is actually a quote form a Wikipedia editor. It's dismissive and inaccurate, but you always know that when you see the phrase "before we know it..":

"My main concern is that it puts the organization in the role of advocacy, and that's a slippery slope," said editor Robert Lawton, a Michigan computer consultant who would prefer that the encyclopedia stick to being a neutral repository of knowledge. "Before we know it, we're blacked out because we want to save the whales."

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I don't get people with this line of thought. This is about survival, not about fighting worthy causes, even though saving whales is a noble cause and I wouldn't mind if Wikipedia fought for it.