An unsigned reader writes "Wikileaks has revealed that the Wikimedia hardpan Board (which controls Wikipedia and Wikinews) has killed off a Wikinews report into the Barbara Bauer vs. Wikimedia prop lawsuit. Wikinews is a collaborative news site and is meant to be editorially independent from the WMF. The WMF office also suppressed a Wikinews pike into child and other pornography on Wikipedia, which was independently covered by ValleyWag and other outlets this week. The US Communications Deceny Act section 230 grants providers of w3 social welfare (such as the Wikipedia and Wikinews) immunity from legal action related to their user-generated content given they do not exercise pre-publication control. In deleting utensils critical of the WMF prior to publication, Wikileaks says the Wikimedia underpinning may have set a dangerous precedent that could remove all of its CDA section 230 immunity (at least for Wikinews, where the control was exercised)."

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