Because no one else is doing it--not even the media.
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by ericbarbour » Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:48 am
https://medium.com/@Wikimedia/three-principles-in-cda-230-that-make-wikipedia-possible-c0fb0006a932
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/11/166 ... 0-internet
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171 ... edia.shtml
This Congress has been even more pathetic than usual. But in this one case, an idiotic appeal to the conservative base might also change the way Wikimedia projects operate. It would also harm a lot of other sites, it's a bad bill, and as usual the EFF is objecting -- but Wikipedia is the thing that makes headlines. They try so hard to cover up their political stance....most of the time. Now they can't.
User-driven projects could not thrive if websites were subject to greater liability for user content, and certainly could not be supported by a small nonprofit organization like the Wikimedia Foundation.
Still pulling that "poor little us, we can't afford to do anything, pls send moar $$$" crap.

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by Strelnikov » Wed Nov 15, 2017 11:27 pm
So they were sitting on around 10 million dollars when the Essjay affair happened and the money pot has only grown larger in the decade since.
Testament to the power of e-begging and the laziness of the giving population for not researching this crap.
Still "Globally Banned" on Wikipedia for the high crime of journalism.