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Old 05-20-2010, 01:54 AM  
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Wikipedia, porn, and the FBI: how sexual images are handled

Everybody is wondering who is in charge at Wikipedia ever since Fox News reported that founder Jimmy Wales has relinquished some control over the site's material. The story claimed that, following Wales' alleged attempt to delete a slew of pornographic images from the site, he has been denied the right "to delete files, remove administrators, assign projects or edit any content."

That's something Wales supposedly started doing following a Wikipedia cofounder's letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation claiming that Wikimedia Commons "may be knowingly distributing child pornography."

"I don't know if there is any more," Larry Sanger added after forwarding the FBI various images he saw as examples, "but I wouldn't be surprised if there is?the content on the various Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons and various others, are truly vast."

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