Chapter 6
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato’s dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
After further publicity in Slashdot, Wikipedia attracts increasing attention from the motley bunch of anarchists, radicals and extremists who believe that all culture, should be free. They have a hatred of any kind of elitism and of ‘high culture’. Should the article on Harry Potter be longer than on Hamlet? It’s not a problem, says Jimbo. Who is to say? They Slashdotters take control of Wikipedia, to Sanger’s disgust. “What I feared, and what then came to pass, was that this system would be hijacked by idiots”.
