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Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons
2010 incident by Larry Sanger to the FBI targeting Wikimedia Commons
Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons
On April 7, 2010, Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, sent a letter to the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stating that Wikimedia Commons was hosting child pornography, contrary to Title 18 of the United States Code. His accusations focused on images in the "lolicon" and "pedophilia" categories, the latter of which contained explicit drawings of sexual acts between adults and children by French artist Martin van Maële (1863–1926). Shortly after Sanger posted the letter in public, criticism came in from multiple sources. This ranged from assertions that he had mislabeled lolicon as child pornography to the contention that his actions were an attack on the Wikimedia Foundation, caused by his history with Wikipedia and his own competing online encyclopedia, Citizendium. Sanger denied that the letter was an attempt to undermine Wikipedia, but did confirm it was an attempt to force a policy change for labeling or eliminating "adult" content on Wikipedia. Wider attention was received...
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