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Wikipedia and CiviliNation founders reflect on cyber civility

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On Monday, the School of Continuing Studies' Technology Management Program sponsored a lecture by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and Andrea Weckerle – founder of the cyber-etiquette organization CiviliNation – on the need for civil discourse on the...

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Gregory Kohs says:
June 14th, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Utterly hypocritical that Jimmy Wales would speak out against “generic spreading of lies online”.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/12/69880

http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=470

I thought that Georgetown had a good reputation for producing independent thinkers, but the fact that not one member of the audience questioned Wales on the above scandal, or about how Wales downplayed his hire of Ryan “Essjay” Jordan even though he knew of his academic credentials fraud, or about how Wales asked Wikipedia volunteers to touch up the biography of Rachel Marsden just before Wales “interfaced” with her at the Doubletree, leads me to believe that there’s not much of anything going on at Georgetown these days.

I’m sure I’ll be criticized for being “mean” and “ugly” here, but at some point, the truth really does need to win out over fake civility.

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Gregory Kohs says:
June 14th, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Utterly hypocritical that Jimmy Wales would speak out against “generic spreading of lies online”.

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/12/69880

http://blog.citizendium.org/?p=470

I thought that Georgetown had a good reputation for producing independent thinkers, but the fact that not one member of the audience questioned Wales on the above scandal, or about how Wales downplayed his hire of Ryan “Essjay” Jordan even though he knew of his academic credentials fraud, or about how Wales asked Wikipedia volunteers to touch up the biography of Rachel Marsden just before Wales “interfaced” with her at the Doubletree, leads me to believe that there’s not much of anything going on at Georgetown these days.

I’m sure I’ll be criticized for being “mean” and “ugly” here, but at some point, the truth really does need to win out over fake civility.

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Heh. I don't suppose this is the time for Georgetown to devote a few neurons to the old diplomacy moral conundrum that "civility" very often consists of "social lying."