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+-   Wikimedia censors Wikinews over Bauer case, porn on Saturday May 17 2008, @06:51AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 17 2008, @06:51AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia Foundation Board (which controls Wikipedia and Wikinews) board has killed off a Wikinews report into the Barabara Bauer vs. Wikimedia Foundation law suit. Wikinews is a collaborative news site and is meant to be editorially independent from the WMF. The WMF office also suppressed a Wikinews investigation into child and other pornography on Wikipedia, which was independently covered by Valley Wag and other outlets this week.

The US Communications Deceny Act section 230 grants providers of internet services (such as the Wikipedia and Wikinews) immunity from legal action related to their user generated content provided they do not exercise pre-publication control.

In deleting articles critical of the WMF prior to publication, Wikileaks says the Wikimedia Foundation may have set a dangerous precedent that could remove all of its CDA section 230 immunity (at least for Wikinews, where the control was exercised)."
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