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> David Gerard "dances on the skulls" of the IWF, his words not mine
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post Wed 10th December 2008, 10:05pm
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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:

QUOTE(David Gerard)
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:

QUOTE(David Gerard)
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.
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Can anyone tell me what the last sentence of DG's rant means; "They can’t work computers, but anything you can’t explain in a difficult-to-corrupt soundbite you can’t explain." I take it his finger/mind/girdle slipped somewhere, but I don't have a clue what it is he was attempting to convey.
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Kato   David Gerard "dances on the skulls" of the IWF   Wed 10th December 2008, 10:05pm
GlassBeadGame   In a blog post, disgraced WMF UK spokesman David ...   Wed 10th December 2008, 10:08pm
Alex   Well let's face it, the whole thing was a big ...   Wed 10th December 2008, 10:22pm
Kato   Well let's face it, the whole thing was a big...   Wed 10th December 2008, 10:37pm
Lifebaka   I'm not sure you can equate Gerard to all of W...   Wed 10th December 2008, 10:53pm
Kato   I'm not sure you can equate Gerard to all of ...   Wed 10th December 2008, 11:13pm
Lifebaka   [quote name='Lifebaka' post='146447' date='Wed 10...   Wed 10th December 2008, 11:26pm
Silly Fake Name   And the ISPs not forwarding the actual IP addres...   Wed 10th December 2008, 11:38pm
Lifebaka   And the ISPs not forwarding the actual IP addre...   Wed 10th December 2008, 11:46pm
Cedric   Hopefully, Gerard in his capacity as "spokesm...   Wed 10th December 2008, 10:57pm
dogbiscuit   Hopefully, Gerard in his capacity as "spokes...   Wed 10th December 2008, 11:15pm
Dzonatas   Hopefully someone will think to contrast the ...   Fri 12th December 2008, 4:56pm
Piperdown   David Gerard is now notable by Wikipedia's sta...   Thu 11th December 2008, 12:45am
Kato   Sticky Parkin asks about creating a Biography on D...   Fri 12th December 2008, 4:17am
EricBarbour   Heh. In that case, Mr. Gerard can personally remo...   Fri 12th December 2008, 5:29am
Alison   A small amount of gleeful dancing on the skulls o...   Fri 12th December 2008, 5:59am
Kato   [quote name='Alison' post='146665' date='Fri 12th ...   Fri 12th December 2008, 6:15am
Somey   In his blog post, the Australian resident of the U...   Fri 12th December 2008, 6:55am
dtobias   Forces of censorship and oppression always claim t...   Fri 12th December 2008, 1:29pm
dogbiscuit   Forces of censorship and oppression always claim ...   Fri 12th December 2008, 3:05pm
JoseClutch   However, it would be foolish to assume that any s...   Fri 12th December 2008, 5:37pm
Milton Roe   However, it would be foolish to assume that any ...   Fri 12th December 2008, 8:05pm
JoseClutch   [quote name='JoseClutch' post='146745' date='Fri ...   Fri 12th December 2008, 9:42pm
Somey   Forces of censorship and oppression always claim t...   Fri 12th December 2008, 5:31pm
Dzonatas   ... there's no question that there's a lot...   Fri 12th December 2008, 6:12pm
dtobias   You can try to claim sensationalism. I wonder if ...   Fri 12th December 2008, 7:51pm
Random832   Weren't you going to write something up on ...   Fri 12th December 2008, 7:55pm
Dzonatas   Weren't you going to write something up on...   Fri 12th December 2008, 8:46pm
dtobias   (Though, if I were putting myself forward as a spo...   Fri 12th December 2008, 1:48pm
Kato   Silvered tongued David Gerard, Wikimedia Foundatio...   Thu 1st January 2009, 2:58pm
GlassBeadGame   Way to pay the tech press back for their yeoman...   Thu 1st January 2009, 4:08pm
CrazyGameOfPoker   Way to pay the tech press back for their yeoman...   Thu 1st January 2009, 4:27pm
tarantino   [quote name='GlassBeadGame' post='149624' date='T...   Thu 1st January 2009, 7:21pm
Somey   To some extent, people like Dave can get away with...   Thu 1st January 2009, 8:20pm
EricBarbour   And evidently, at least in Davegerardland, Wikipe...   Thu 1st January 2009, 9:08pm
tarantino   To some extent, people like Dave can get away wit...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 1:58am
Pumpkin Muffins   To some extent, people like Dave can get away wit...   Fri 2nd January 2009, 8:09pm
Eva Destruction   Can anyone tell me what the last sentence of DG...   Thu 1st January 2009, 8:56pm
Somey   Glad to be of service Hmmm... :hmmm: Thanks, but ...   Thu 1st January 2009, 9:18pm
EricBarbour   In essence, this is just another way of saying th...   Thu 1st January 2009, 9:36pm


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