31 January 2006
Wikipedia v. The United States
From the RFC discussing the rampant and willful distortion of Wikipedia articles, originating from authors using Congress's IP blocks:
We already have mechanisms in place to detect suspect edits. ... It's just kind of ironic that this time it's the leaders of the free world we need to watch.
[ Updated 1:35 PM ]
From /.'s discussion:
And now Congress will vote to make freely-editable online encyclopedias illegal.
Hehe. Although the discussions from the RFC are the most interesting, bringing up: the value of permanent/limited blocking, whether this type of punishment is useful, the power that robot editors have in cleaning this up, the possible future of PR firms ransacking Wikipedia, and how group attacks differ from individual attacks.
[ posted by sstrader on
31 January 2006 at 8:19:40 AM in Politics
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