Wikipedia Accepts 'Enemies Of The Internet' Currencies

Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife have donated $500,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia.The grant was made by the Brin Wojcicki Foundation founded by Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder of 23andMe, a personal genetics company, the Brin Wojcicki Foundation said in a statement on Friday.The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation launched its annual fundraising drive this week and visitors to Wikipedia.org are currently met with an appeal for donations from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales.

French secret service agents have been accused of censorship after reportedly threatening to arrest and charge a French Wikipedia volunteer unless he deleted an article on the internet encyclopedia.

Authoritarian regimes around the world are using technology from a Silicon Valley firm for Internet surveillance, filtering and censorship, according to a report by Canadian researchers.

China is experimenting with more subtle methods to censor Internet search results ahead of the 24th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, according to a group that monitors blocked websites in the country.

Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia has gone promotional. Not the site itself, but those using the site to create a profit for themselves. Founder Jim Wales (known to his “loyal” fans as Jimbo), has always taken a stance that no one can make money from Wikipedia and has vowed to ban anyone who does. However, Jimbo has created a monster that can no longer be controlled.

The driving force behind the Wikimedia Foundation, Sue Gardner, is stepping down, Amy Chozik of 

The U.S. has been selling arms to Bahrain amid the small Mideast nation's increasingly repressive crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, Justin Elliot of ProPublica reports.

The leaders of Liberty Silver Corp. insist they are keeping their distance from Bobby Genovese, the penny-stock promoter who helped drive the junior miner’s stock price to stunning highs this year. “We are keeping ourselves very separate and apart from Mr. Genovese. So he has no influence on our company and is not a part of our financing plans,” chairman Tim Unwin said at the company’s annual meeting in Toronto on Friday. He added that he has never met or spoken with Mr. Genovese, a short-lived reality television star who goes by the nickname “Bobby G”.