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I don't think that's true. Those sites grew mostly through word of mouth. I don't consider that to be devious.

What's wrong with Jimmy Wales operating a porn site? I don't see how that's related to Wikipedia.

Nothing wrong at all. I think he used it to finance wikipedia/nupedia in the early stages though. I just tried to give examples of things that started not necessarily with the thought of making the world a better place.

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