June 12, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With over 65 million visitors per month, Wikipedia has been established worldwide as a leading information resource. But is its popularity due to its historical and scientific data?
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger warns that one of the site’s primary uses is actually for viewing pornography, and despite the outcry for content filters, none have been implemented.
“Wikipedia really faces an existential kind of question,” Sanger told LifeSiteNews. “Do they want to be an adults-only website, or one that continues to welcome children?”
A survey of 176,000 Wikipedia readers and contributors in 2010 revealed that as much as 25% of users are under 18 years old. According to Fox News, Wikipedia is used every day by millions of children doing research for school.
So just how much porn are children viewing?
Read More at lifesitenews.com. By Angela O’Brien.
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Boys will be boys and do not think for even a second that when they find this stuff that they are going to leave it alone. Until they find something even “better” that is. Even girls can get into this too so it would be better to filter it out completely. Out of sight and maybe out of mind.
The problem with sick minds is that they infect healthy curiosity of children, which leads to more sick minds joining the madness. Sensoring or filtering of such offerings will be objected to by those who claim freedom of expression, etc., but that should not stop sites such as Wikipedia from maintaining decorum.