David Gerard "dances on the skulls" of the IWF, his words not mine Options

[Kato]

In a blog post, disgraced WMF UK spokesman David Gerard - previously best known as the guy who blocked a whole region of Utah, and censored various IPs round the world, as well as censoring "encyclopedia text", all because he didn't like the views of one person who turned out to be correct anyway - and the guy currently accused of entirely deleting ("oversighting" or "censoring" if you will) edits on the subject of zoophilia to protect a fellow high-powered Wikipedian who made them, for political reasons - boasts that after his appearances in the media to oppose the recent IWF censorship:

A small amount of gleeful dancing on the skulls of the IWF today.

This is aimed at a group who work with the Police and Child Protection agencies to alert ISPs about potentially illegal exploitative images of children.

He goes on to write:

I predict a flood of helpful citizenry going to the IWF reporting page and entering any image on any top 10 website that might be “potentially illegal.” Much as the head of the IWF is “potentially a fabulous drag queen.”

Can Wikipedia get more hypocritical, arrogant and obnoxious?

EDIT: More on David Gerard here.

[Cedric]

Hopefully, Gerard in his capacity as "spokesman" will be doing some of his gloating in front of the media. Anything to give these ignorant media types more incentive to uncover all that wiki-porn out there (which is not really that hard to find). Then I daresay his "dancing" will become much more entertaining.

[dogbiscuit]

Hopefully, Gerard in his capacity as "spokesman" will be doing some of his gloating in front of the media. Anything to give these ignorant media types more incentive to uncover all that wiki-porn out there (which is not really that hard to find). Then I daresay his "dancing" will become much more entertaining.

Hopefully someone will think to contrast the "Oh, actually I get the problem" response from Jimbo (not a quick thinker but he got there in the end) with Gerard - who went for a high risk strategy and won the battle but has now raised the public's awareness that Wikipedia is a place where they don't like their pornographic images to be censored. Eventually, someone will twig that they don't like that more than some watchdog. In the UK we like to have people we can complain to and when things go wrong we expect someone to take responsibility.