New twist on fearing the Wikipedia: CWA.sex

Another layer of Wikipedia-fearing comes from some American conservatives, who see the site as,,, purveying hardcore pornography.

Matt Barber, Policy Director for Cultural Issues with Concerned Women for America (CWA), said, "Perhaps Wikipedia should change its name to Pornopedia.  Providing clinical images that may assist people in research is one thing, but many of the images and videos featured by Wikipedia are gratuitous and obscene..."

Note that CWA hits on both classic registers of digital porn fearing, exposure to "children" (minors of all ages) and general readers (presumable leading to the corruption of adults, etc).

A call for federal regulation follows.

(thanks to Argus-eyed Jesse Walker)

Comments

[peter naegele]

Pure insanity....might as well shut down all search engines while they're at it!

[Scott Leslie]

But can we believe this pornography, if it was contributed by regular users? And won't it have more errors in it?

[Bryan Alexander]

And some think of that, peter.

Brilliant, Scott!