Re: The Daily Mail ban
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:45 am
Hitchins has summarised his whole experience in a piece for the Spectator.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/war ... wikipedia/
For those keeping score of just how stupid the Wikilessons really are, they're still claiming Hitchins is the bad guy, but somehow, as if by magic, the article has been fixed of all the problems he identified.
Now, wouldn't it have been better to stop being assholes for just a second and listen to the guy?? Because if you had, you might have come out of this with both a fixed article and without this glowing recommendation......
Dumbasses.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2018/08/war ... wikipedia/
For those keeping score of just how stupid the Wikilessons really are, they're still claiming Hitchins is the bad guy, but somehow, as if by magic, the article has been fixed of all the problems he identified.
Now, wouldn't it have been better to stop being assholes for just a second and listen to the guy?? Because if you had, you might have come out of this with both a fixed article and without this glowing recommendation......
That's the Spectator. People read that. Not as many as the Mail, not by a long chalk, but the sort of people Jimmy Wales likes to have wine and cheese with. And members of the Parlliamentary committee currently looking into whether the internet needs to be regulated or not.I was told I must humbly confess before anyone would listen to me. No Englishman of my generation would consider such a surrender, so I am out of Wikipedia for ever. While it lasted, and while I was inside it, it was a tiny, infuriating nightmare of totalitarianism.
Dumbasses.