{"id":183,"date":"2009-07-01T15:38:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=183"},"modified":"2010-02-07T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T16:11:04","slug":"wikipedia-keeps-the-truth-from-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2009\/07\/01\/wikipedia-keeps-the-truth-from-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia keeps the truth from everyone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>WIKICITIES, Helmand,<\/b> Monday (NNN) &mdash; The kidnapping of Pulitzer Prize-winning <i>New York Times<\/i> journalist David Rohde in Afghanistan was suppressed not only by almost all press syndicates but also by Wikipedia, on the direct command-and-control orders of Jimbo Wales, who is personally responsible for every word in the popular web-based encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newstechnica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/bouncy-wikipedia-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" border=0 \/>Conservative commentators were appalled at the suppression. &#8220;Would they have protected HITLER like this?&#8221; thundered Michelle Malkin. Wales pointed out that the encyclopedia&#8217;s biography of Hitler had already been appropriately edited and cited per the Biographies of Living Persons policy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Adolf Hitler<\/b> is the Chancellor of Germany<sup>[<i>citation needed<\/i>]<\/sup>. He is noted<sup>[<i>citation needed<\/i>]<\/sup> for his work on the moral fibre of German society<sup>[<i>citation needed<\/i>]<\/sup> and stimulating the economy<sup>[<i>citation needed<\/i>]<\/sup>, notably through the Autobahn construction programme<sup>[<i>citation needed<\/i>]<\/sup>. Some<sup>[<i>who?<\/i>]<\/sup> have criticized aspects of his policies<sup>[<i>citation needed<\/i>]<\/sup>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/newstechnica.com\/2009\/06\/30\/wikipedia-keeps-the-truth-from-everyone\/\">(Read more &#8230;)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIKICITIES, Helmand, Monday (NNN) &mdash; The kidnapping of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist David Rohde in Afghanistan was suppressed not only by almost all press syndicates but also by Wikipedia, on the direct command-and-control orders of Jimbo Wales, who is personally responsible for every word in the popular web-based encyclopedia. Conservative commentators were appalled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2009\/07\/01\/wikipedia-keeps-the-truth-from-everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wikipedia keeps the truth from everyone.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}