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Wikipedia has, over time, instituted gradually more control because of some embarrassing incidents, particularly involving potentially libelous material, and some people get histrionic about it, proclaiming the death of Wikipedia. But the idea of a pure openness, a pure democracy, is a naïve one.
— Joseph M. Reagle, an adjunct professor of communications at New York University who studies Wikipedia, in a NY Times article about Wikipedia administrators’ attempts to keep news of Times reporter David Rodhe’s kidnapping off his page in conjunction with the media silence.
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