A fight has broken out over sexually explicit content on Wikipedia, the world's largest open-source reference site. Jimmy Wales, who cofounded the site with Larry Sanger, deleted hundreds of nude photos after his estranged partner Sanger told the FBI that Wikipedia's parent company was "knowingly distributing child pornography." Some users are protesting Wales' "undemocratic" decision to yank material from the user-generated site — and Wales has responded by giving up some of his editing privileges. Has Wales done too much cleaning up — or not enough?
It was a feeble effort: Wales didn't begin to solve the problem, says Jana Winter at FoxNews.com. The images to which the FBI was alerted are still online, "along with an entire category called 'nude children' and other photos of naked children."
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