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One of my very first blog posts (on blogger IIRR) was about me searching for some info on MLK and finding the second or third link on Google (this would have be
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
One of my very first blog posts (on blogger IIRR) was about me searching for some info on MLK and finding the second or third link on Google (this would have been 2004/5?) - and only after reading it twice in confusion did I work out it was hosted by stormfront.org and basically was ... well emphasising possible plagiarism in phd and possible affairs. You know a mud slinging operation. I thought google could cleverly use attributes in anchor links like "Disapprove".
Anyway the point I am badly making is that I am pretty sure the educational value of his speech on say wikipedia outweighs the benefit of dragging some idiot remixing it to say rude things through the courts.
- Paul-Craft 4y agoYou know, MLK did plagiarize significant portions of his dissertation: https://archive.is/20210120053741/https://www.chronicle.com/article/plagiarism-by-martin-luther-king-affirmed-by-scholars-at-boston-u/ https://archive.is/20210120053741/https://www.chronicle.com/...
- Larrikin 4y agoWe had a class the first year of high school that taught various skills every quarter. Things like giving presentations, properly using the scientific method, etc. The writing and researching papers component used that specific site as an example for making sure you dive into the source of "information" and making sure you have corroborating evidence. She would ask the students to check it out, and use the various techniques we knew already to evaluate it. Pretty much every student would fail and call it trust worthy and she would then reveal that it (at the time) was run by one of the largest group of white supremacists on the internet. Not sure if the librarian who taught the class still uses that site, but as a 13 year old it was a very powerful lesson.