I realized this had become very public when I read the wiki-curious Cohen writing about it in the NYT, but it was still a bit of a shock to see Jay Walsh by satellite link on the BBC's flagship current affairs programme, Newsnight, just now. An incredulous-seeming Kirsty Wark was asking him questions like, "Do you have a moral responsibility to society? Jay Walsh?" and, "If it could be shown that this was damaging, clinically, would you take the images down? I mean, you do have the power to take them down, it's not some sort of anarchic website?" (A clearly uncomfortable Jay Walsh: "It's complicated.")
I'm not of a miiiiind to fight the corner of Reichian mumbo-jumbo even if it is vs. Wikipedia, but it's true to say the Wikimedia Foundation came off as irresponsible and Walsh, incoherent.
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