Jimmy Wales - Pornographer? FAKE NEWS!
More disturbing details emerge over Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and his porn network history
So says Mike Adams of Natural News, a conspiracy theory and fake news website.
According to Wikipedia:
The
website sells various dietary supplements, promotes alternative
medicine, tendentious nutrition and health claims, fake news, and
espouses various conspiracy theories. These conspiracy theories include
chemophobic claims about the purported dangers of "chemtrails",
fluoridated drinking water, anti-perspirants, laundry detergent,
monosodium glutamate, aspartame), and alleged health problems caused by
allegedly "toxic" ingredients in vaccines, including the now-discredited
link to autism. It has also spread conspiracy theories about the Zika
virus allegedly being spread by genetically modified mosquitoes and
purported adverse effects of genetically modified crops, as well as the
farming practices associated with and foods derived from them.
The
site's founder, Michael Allen "Mike" Adams, gained attention after
posting a blog entry implying a call for violence against proponents of
GMO foods, and then allegedly creating another website with a list of
names of alleged supporters. He has been accused of using "pseudoscience
to sell his lies". Adams has described vaccines as "medical child
abuse".
Characterized as a "conspiracy-minded alternative
medicine website", Natural News has approximately 7 million unique
visitors per month.
What does Mike Adams say about Wikipedia?
(NaturalNews)
It is astonishing that the Wikipedia website smears so many thousands
of people with false, defamatory information -- celebrities, authors,
activists, scientists, journalists and so on -- yet almost no one has
published the dubious history of its co-founder, Jimmy Wales.
As
part of the background investigation into the Wikipedia smear machine,
Natural News has uncovered some truly shocking details about Jimmy Wales
and his very questionable character. It turns out that before launching
Wikipedia and structuring it as an online defamation engine to defame
and slander people he didn't like, Jimmy Wales ran a porn network called
Bomis, which sold membership access to pornography.
What does Wikipedia say about Bomis?
Bomis ( to rhyme with "promise") was a dot-com company best known for supporting the creations of free-content online-encyclopedia projects Nupedia and Wikipedia.[8] It was founded in 1996 by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael Davis.[15][16][17] By 2007, the company was inactive with its Wikipedia-related resources transferred to the Wikimedia Foundation.[13][18]
The company initially tried a number of ideas for content, including being a directory of information about Chicago.[19]
The site subsequently focused on content geared to a male audience,
including information on sporting activities, automobiles and women.[20][21][22] Bomis became successful after focusing on X-rated media.[23] "Bomis Babes" was devoted to erotic images;[5] the "Bomis Babe Report" featured adult pictures.[7][12] Bomis Premium, available for an additional fee, provided explicit material.[4][23][24] "The Babe Engine" helped users find erotic content through a web search engine.[3][8][25] The advertising director for Bomis noted that 99 percent of queries on the site were for nude women.[26]
Bomis created Nupedia as a free online encyclopedia (with content submitted by experts) but it had a tedious, slow review process.[27][28] Wikipedia was initially launched by Bomis to provide content for Nupedia,[11][29][30] and was a for-profit venture (a Bomis subsidiary) through the end of 2002.[31] As the costs of Wikipedia rose with its popularity, Bomis' revenues declined as result of the dot-com crash.[32] Since Wikipedia was a drain on Bomis' resources, Wales and philosophy graduate student Larry Sanger decided to fund the project as a charity.[32] Sanger was laid off from Bomis in 2002.[33] Nupedia content was merged into Wikipedia,[34] and it ceased in 2003.[10]
The non-profit Wikimedia Foundation began in 2003 with a Board of Trustees composed of Bomis' three founders (Wales, Davis and Shell)[17] and was first headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida,[18] Bomis' location.[35] Wales used about US$100,000 of revenue from Bomis to fund Wikipedia before the decision to shift the encyclopedia to non-profit status.[36] Wales stepped down from his role as CEO of Bomis in 2004.[37] Shell served as CEO of the company in 2005, while on the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees. Wales edited Wikipedia in 2005 to remove the characterizations of Bomis as providing softcore pornography,[29][38] which attracted media attention;[24][39][40] Wales expressed regret for his actions.[29][38] The Atlantic gave Bomis the nickname "Playboy of the Internet",[41] and the term caught on in other media outlets.[32][42][43] Scholars have described Bomis as a provider of softcore pornography.[30][44]
The Wikipedia article on Bomis includes a photo of Silvia Saint
wearing a Bomis T shirt. Silvie Tomčalová (born 12 February 1976) is a
former Czech pornographic actress. In 1996 she was Penthouse Pet of the
Year in the Czech edition of the magazine. She has appeared in over 300
pornographic movies.
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