User:Qpwoeiritu

Hello, I go by the name "Chip Wilson". I'm a nuclear engineer hailing from New Mexico. I can be reached at americium.241@gmail.com. I finally joined Wikia on 1/29/08 in response to the incident documented here (http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Spanking_art_wiki), my interest being that Wikia is too good of a concept to be squandered by corporate managers who censor community content at the pleasure of advertisers. Take a minute and go read that discussion closely.

The demise of the Spanking_art_wiki may not impact you or me directly, but we'd be remiss if we ignored what this incident reveals about the commitment of Wikia's current management to our freedom of expression. I will not mince words: I think we've got a turd in the punchbowl, my friend.

Wikia was explicitly founded to advocate the principles of "free culture," a movement to liberate content creators from the prevailing commercial doctrine "in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful," as Lawrence Lessig phrased it. There is obviously no room in this game for ethically bankrupt, intellectually lazy, old-guard Silicon Valley executives who will sell off your expectation of expressive freedom on Wikia to advertisers and cave to the censorship demands of petty trolls. I hope to convince the founders, investors, and contributors of Wikia that it is in our collective interest to depose CEO Gil Penchina as quickly and decisively as humanly possible.

Have a pleasant day, whoever and wherever you are. -Chip Wilson Qpwoeiritu 04:21, 2 February 2008 (UTC)