Abe Sokolov wrote:
Only a handful of users seem to care about fostering
pluralism, diversity,
tolerance, and mutual respect on Wiki these days. Fortunately, site owner
Jimbo Wales is the most ardent defender of a pluralistic community of
users. His guidance is desperately needed at this point.
Mr. Wales, whom I'm deeply respect for founding this experiment in
applying a certain set of principles, needs to explain to these
"anti-Communist" advocates of censorship the differences between liberty
and fascism.
Yes, while not commenting on the specifics of this dispute, because I
just now looked at the web pages and couldn't come to a firm
understanding of what's going on yet, I will say that absolutely,
Wikipedia is *not* anti-communist, and that banning people for
ideological reasons would be a horrible precedent.
--Jimbo