Wikipedia Bans Scientology

[Josh]

www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/29/wikipedia_bans_scientology/

"In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates."

Haha. I found this funny

[danielazarc]

<3

[ŋєт™]

Hell yea!!!

[Admin]

DS said good, and I think it's crazy yet funny

[Signore Kai]

I like this. Propaganda should be kept off a site where neutrality and balance of information
is important. That means both the good stuff and the bad stuff should be added in.

Scientology have always had this "Remove-All-Criticism" mindset, as least according to the
most reliable of all sources, history. So this I like.

But who will guard the guards? I hope the team who makes the decision wouldn't go all
haywire and start banning everything or do something stupid.

[now uc it]

May 29, 2009 19:56:46 GMT Signore Kai said:

I like this. Propaganda should be kept off a site where neutrality and balance of information
is important. That means both the good stuff and the bad stuff should be added in.

Scientology have always had this "Remove-All-Criticism" mindset, as least according to the
most reliable of all sources, history. So this I like.

But who will guard the guards? I hope the team who makes the decision wouldn't go all
haywire and start banning everything or do something stupid.

Agreed. It worries me when anyone is banning edits from a specific group of people.

[Neversoft]

haha

the uncyclopedia version of the Scientology article is better, anyway

[danielazarc]

May 29, 2009 19:59:14 GMT now uc it said:

May 29, 2009 19:56:46 GMT Signore Kai said:

I like this. Propaganda should be kept off a site where neutrality and balance of information
is important. That means both the good stuff and the bad stuff should be added in.

Scientology have always had this "Remove-All-Criticism" mindset, as least according to the
most reliable of all sources, history. So this I like.

But who will guard the guards? I hope the team who makes the decision wouldn't go all
haywire and start banning everything or do something stupid.

Agreed. It worries me when anyone is banning edits from a specific group of people.

Don't worry about it. Freedom of speech extends only so far, and Wikipedia has full right to prevent edits from people who have a severe track record of abusing the system. That's quite different than censoring something simply because they disagree with it.