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While in graduate school, he taught at two universities, but left before completing a PhD in order to take a job in finance and later worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a male-oriented web portal featuring entertainment and adult content. The company would provide the initial funding for the peer-reviewed free encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003) and its successor, Wikipedia.

...The website Wired reported in 2005 that Wales has “repeatedly revised the [Wikipedia] description of a search site he called Bomis, which included a section with adult photos called ‘Bomis Babes.’” Wikipedia had described Bomis Babes as “soft-core pornography,” but Wales changed it to “adult content section” and twice removed references to pornography.

...After thoroughly researching the issue, WND has edited Reisman’s column to read: “Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia’s creator, originally made his living off a website that earned revenue from pornography traffickers.”

...Attempting to get to the bottom of the issue, Farah asked Wales how much money he generated from Bomis.

“For a few years, I took a modest salary as programmer and CEO (averaging less than $60k per year for the life of the company),” Wales explained. ”The company declined until we closed it; there was no sale and no big earnings of any kind.

“The revenue of the company was primarily advertising. The best period of time for the company came when we were part of the NBCi network (a search engine and web portal run by NBC television), but that quickly went away when NBCi collapsed as a part of the general dot-com collapse.”

Farah asked: “Are you suggesting that Bomis was not trafficking pornography? Or that you were not involved in Bomis?”

“By any sane measure of our revenue and profits, no, we were not ‘trafficking pornography,’” Wales replied. ”Like many dot-com startups of the era, we struggled with what kind of advertisers to accept and we did have ‘adult’ advertisers – as did all the other major portals at the time. 99% of our revenue was not from that, so it’s totally ludicrous to claim we were ‘trafficking pornography.’”

At the conclusion of the exchange between Farah and Wales, Farah told the Wikipedia founder: “You might recall that Wikipedia once claimed I had an affair … (Untrue) It claimed I was a homosexual. (Untrue) Both of these false accusations actually resulted in material and professional harm to me. So I am sure you will extend some patience while we address this issue.”

Wales replied, “I understand. We always stand ready to make corrections and ban people who misbehave.”

However, in 2009, Wikipedia pronounced Rush Limbaugh dead at least two times in one day – and the free “encyclopedia” relied on information from a spoof blog that later declared the talk radio icon had become a “vampire” who craves “virgin’s blood.” Wikipedia announced, “It has been reported that Limbaugh has died in a Hawaii hospital.”

..WND also reported in December 2008 when the Wikipedia made the following claims:

Barack Obama “is a member of the Nudist Party.”
Sen. Ted Stevens participated in “kinky sex adventures.”
Sen. John McCain “looks like a pig.”
Hillary Clinton’s conception was “a complete accident,” and when she was born, “she had clubbed feet and her arms bent the wrong way.”
Wired Magazine reported that Wales had edited his own Wikipedia page at least 18 times by 2005, even though the “encyclopedia” frowns on attempts by people to correct their own bios.

“People shouldn’t do it, including me,” Wales told the magazine. “I wish I hadn’t done it. It’s in poor taste

WND’s Farah has been characterized by Wikipedia as a “Zionist twit and Jew-loving pig,” a “known [expletive] sucker,” “closet homosexual,” “conspiracy theorist,” “white supremacist,” a “proud member of the Ku Klux Klan,” a “religious nutcase” and “a pioneer in the political uses of psychedelics.” It also falsely accused Farah of having a romantic affair with a famous conservative female commentator.

...However, in addition to textbook anatomy images, the following were found on Wikipedia:

Large-scale photos of men performing oral sex on one another

(and performing oral sex on themselves)



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