Raymond Ma wrote in the SCMP on August 27:
Jimmy Wales, founder of the open-forum internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, vowed yesterday he would not go down the same path as search engine Google by bowing to pressure from Beijing to censor sensitive articles.
Wikipedia, whose open invitation to write and edit articles has become increasingly popular in China, has been blocked by mainland censors since October. Mainland internet users have had to rely on a similar, but heavily censored clone, put together by Chinese Web portal Baidu, which puts a positive spin on events politically sensitive to Beijing such as the Tiananmen crackdown of 1989.
To read more:
http://asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=51805
Maybe the problem is that Wikipedia is labeling itself as an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a factual compilation of historical facts. Wikipedia is more of a propaganda site that supports most mainstream corporate controlled news stories and labels anything to the contrary as a conspiracy theory. Wikipedia is garbage that pays top dollar to get on the top page of search engines only to parade itself as an objective source of information when it is really a poor excuse for real research.
Posted by: FINANCE1 | March 21, 2008 at 07:43 AM