[WikiEN-l] Articles like "Violence against Israelis"

Wed Sep 1 18:10:00 UTC 2004

>I wasn't comparing. My interest is in Wikipedia. In any case, such
>comparisons do not make things inevitable and therefore unworthy of
>thought.
>
>The very idea of Wikipedia, it seems to me, is to avoid the dominance
>of any one group or person. That it does such a good job of this is
>actually all the more reason to keep in mind that it is not perfect and
>why.

People where saying the exact same thing a decade ago when the world wide 
web was all the rage. That the "internet" would revolutionize human society, 
that direct democracy would become usable and that all forms of oppression 
and mass media control would magically disappear.. halleluja!

Well, it didn't and today the web is dominated by a few American giants like 
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and some others. Yes you can find alternative 
information on the net just like there was a lot of alternative papers that 
noone read before the internet too. But the overexposure of the mainstream 
(Beckhams sex life) makes it so noone but the few that actively look for 
alternative stuff will ever find it.

Then if Wikipedia really is different, then why does those list report many 
more Israelis killed than Palestinians when the real situation is the 
complete opposite?

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