Founder of Wikipedia Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales is now the Committee Chairman for Lawrence Lessig's campaign to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States:
"Larry's run for President is different," said Wales, who founded the free-access, free-content encyclopedia in the early 2000s. "He's crowdfunding his campaign instead of seeking out rich donors. He's showing people that we can change the rigged political system."
Both long-time supporters of Internet freedom, Wales and Lessig have stood side by side on previous issues, most notably in opposing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in 2012. Wales' day-long Wikipedia blackout protesting SOPA influenced other major Internet players to follow suit and is credited with helping to sink the legislation.
"I'm deeply grateful for Jimmy's support," said Lessig. "We both believe in the power of the people to push back against special interests. He's a valuable player in this fight to end the corrupting role of money in politics once and for all."
"The Internet community came together to fight back against SOPA and we were successful." Wales said. "Now we're behind Lessig to fight for citizen equality. When you light up the Internet, anything is possible."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @03:18AM
When you throw a number out that is THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE OFF, that's not an "oops, I got the number a little wrong." That's an "ok, I really don't know shit about the topic" statement.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @05:24AM
I'm not sure who you consider to be run by moonies but you can take your pick of the articles from google then. I may have gotten who printed it wrong but the phrase "seven figures" from a senior Gawker figure has been definitely been put out around the net.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gawker+gamergate+seven+figure+number&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8/ [google.com]
I like the way that you picked an article from almost a year ago. That doesn't seem dishonest at all.