I figure it’s the sound of somebody’s ox being gored.
But one commenter says that anytime he sees someone telling us to be civil, he grabs his copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
There’s no reason both couldn’t apply when the founder of Wikipedia starts lecturing on the topic in the WSJ: Keep a Civil Cybertongue: Rude and abusive online behavior should not be met with silence.
It figures. Wikipedia has become increasingly authoritarian and less democratic of late, but not necessarily more accurate.
And you’d be right if you’re guessing that the authors of the above article don’t say a word about the rude and abusive behavior that Wikipedia is accused of engaging in by James Delingpole in his article, Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia.