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post Thu 3rd November 2011, 9:21am
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Censorship is the biggest threat to the development of the internet, according to Wikipedia's founder Jimmy Wales. Governments have become "more sophisticated" in the ways they suppress criticism, he told the BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones in an interview at ...

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post Thu 3rd November 2011, 3:41pm
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"We are very principalled about never co-operating with censorship," Wales said.


Actually, you and your cronies are expert at practicing it, Jimbo!

Additionally, no comments are allowed on the BBC page. How fitting.

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post Thu 3rd November 2011, 5:49pm
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Could you run through Verifiability not Truth once more?
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"We are very principalled about never co-operating with censorship," Wales said.


Actually, you and your cronies are expert at practicing it, Jimbo!

Additionally, no comments are allowed on the BBC page. How fitting.

That's practising
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post Thu 3rd November 2011, 6:18pm
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Not in America. I'm from America, and as much as Jimbo imagines himself to be an English lord, he's from America, too.
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post Fri 4th November 2011, 3:02pm
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 3rd November 2011, 6:18pm) *

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Not in America. I'm from America, and as much as Jimbo imagines himself to be an English lord, he's from America, too.

Yes, but it's a discussion on the BBC web site, and you can't get more British than that.

I'm far more baffled by the spelling "principalled", which (if it means anything) neans having a principal, as opposed to having a principle. Or don't Americans have principles?
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