The connection of Jimmy Wales, the former CEO of Wikipedia, with child pornography is extremely weak. You make it sound like Jimmy Wales, the former CEO of Wikipedia, purposefully put up porn on Wikipedia, child porn at that. That's simply not true. Wales didn't deal with the FBI either, not that we know at least: Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, did. There is no mention as to whether or not Wales knew about the child porn that was being put up, and it seems unlikely since it was a loose effort by pedophiles to put the porn there and since no one in the organization thought to check for it up until Larry Sanger thought to do so (resulting in the FBI connection). Wales' actual porn related activity was on a separate website of which 10% of the revenue came from what was largely "soft-core" porn.
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The connection of Jimmy Wales, the former CEO of Wikipedia, with child pornography is extremely weak. You make it sound like Jimmy Wales, the former CEO of Wikipedia, purposefully put up porn on Wikipedia, child porn at that. That's simply not true. Wales didn't deal with the FBI either, not that we know at least: Larry Sanger, a co-founder of Wikipedia, did. There is no mention as to whether or not Wales knew about the child porn that was being put up, and it seems unlikely since it was a loose effort by pedophiles to put the porn there and since no one in the organization thought to check for it up until Larry Sanger thought to do so (resulting in the FBI connection). Wales' actual porn related activity was on a separate website of which 10% of the revenue came from what was largely "soft-core" porn.