Wikipedia’s Porn Promoting Purgatory

Sometimes one thing leads to another and then another and then ultimately purgatory. That's exactly where Wikipedia is finding itself after a tip on ChildLaw blog led to this FoxNews.com story which led to action by Congress and now this. According to FoxNews.com: The parent company of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia is rapidly purging thousands of explicit pornographic images from its websites as it prepares to announce a new policy regarding sexually explicit content in response to reporting by FoxNews.com. The move came as FoxNews.com was in the process of asking dozens of companies that have donated to Wikimedia Foundation -- the umbrella ...

See no evil . . .

A report issued yesterday by attorneys hired by the Lower Merion School District found that the collection of images stemmed not from an effort to spy on students but from "the district's failure to implement policies, procedures and recordkeeping requirements and the overzealous and questionable use of technology by IS personnel without any apparent regard for privacy considerations or sufficient consultation with administrators." The report also criticized leaders and several members of the IS department as "not forthcoming with the Board, administrators and students about what TheftTrack could do and how they used it," citing incidents demonstra...

Congress Reacts to Wikipedia Firestorm

FoxNews.com was recently informed that the day after the Wikipedophilia post appeared on this blog, Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, sent a copy of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger's letter to the FBI. Rep. Steve Austria, R-Ohio, sent a copy of the same letter to the FBI on April 27. Perhaps this is the kind of bi-partisanship we've all been waiting for. Stay tuned for updates which are posted here on FoxNews.com. An interesting side note: Wikipedia apparently got its start in the world of online pornography. According to an article on Wikipedia: Bomis (pronounced /ˈbɒmɨs/ to rhyme with "promise") is a dot-com company founded in 1996. Its primary ...

Wikipedia Responds to FOXNews.com Story

Yesterday, FOXNews.com published this story online entitled "Wikipedia Distributing Child Porn, Co-Founder Tells FBI." Now both the Wikimedia Foundation and one subject of the exposé, Erik Möller, have responded. According to the Wikimedia blog: The story repeats serious falsehoods and offers information taken grossly out of context, resulting in what amounts to a deliberate misrepresentation of reality. The Wikimedia Foundation is appalled and angry that Erik’s employment with us has resulted in him becoming a target, and we believe that recklessly maligning him is indefensible On the topic of allegedly illegal materials on Wikipedia and ...

Wikipedophilia

I've been sitting on this story for quite some time waiting for something significant to make it relevant. Now that time has come. About two years ago, rumors started floating around about Wikipedia's involvement with child pornography and the pedophile agenda. First there was a row about this image on Wikipedia depicting child nudity. Then there was the long-standing allegation by Perverted Justice that: Pedophiles have long sought to use Wikipedia to justify and promote their agenda. They organize together in order to create Wikipedia accounts and then seek to use Wikipedia's all-inclusiveness to promote their point of view. When pointed out, ...

School Captured 56,000 Images from Student Laptops

Finally the truth about Lower Merion's use of remote monitoring software on student laptops: On Monday, the District's lawyer admitted that the school system captured 56,000 images of students, although thankfully "none of the images appeared to be salacious or inappropriate." Back in February, the District's website declared that they only activated the software to locate lost, stolen or missing laptops: "The district has not used the tracking feature or webcam for any other purpose or in any other manner whatsoever," the Web site said. Conclusion: there must be an awfully lot of missing laptops in the richest school district in Pennsylvania and one ...

100 Year Old Pedophile Back in Prison

Last December, I covered the story of Theodore Sypnier, a 100-year-old child molester who was released from prison denying that he ever harmed any children. Well apparently he believed in what he said so much that he violated parole and was returned to the clink for failing to attend sex offender classes. This just in from SkunkPost.com: It isn’t every day that a 100-year-old man is sentenced to prison. But not too many 100-year-old men are convicted pedophiles. Theodore Sypnier is. You may remember, last year when he was released from prison and sent to a halfway house in Buffalo it sparked a huge controversy….including concern he ...

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