QUOTE(Larry Sanger @ Sun 2nd May 2010, 7:06pm)
All, I just thought I would log in here and thank you for your support. I've never written on the Wikipedia Review before, but it seems that the quality of discussion has become a lot more subtle and interesting since the site was first founded. Also, when SB Johnny wrote
this, suddenly everything became so clear!
Maybe we should move that to the "Forum Information" forum... (IMG:
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Anyway, welcome to WR. I myself had to comment on that Techdirt piece when someone tried to characterize drawings of child sexual abuse as "fictional child abuse," so that they could then attempt to draw a bogus parallel between that and "fictional murder," as if images and text are fundamentally the same, or as if drawings or stories of children being raped should be no more disturbing to kids (and their parents) than a Margaret Truman novel.
It's amazing what some people will convince themselves of in order to avoid having cracks appear in their belief systems, and IMO the internet only feeds this tendency. Moreover, I'd say the WP'ers reaction to the FBI letter being treated as
news worth reporting (even if it
is just on Fox) is considerably more instructive than their reaction to the letter itself.