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The Battle Over Candidates' Wikipedia Entries
MrByte420 writes "The New York Times today has a story (stupid reg required) about the particpants of Wikipedia editing Bush and Kerry's entries in the days leading up to the U.S. Elections. With admins locked in philosophical debate over whether to lock the page down, others asked, "Could someone get rid of the middle-finger screen cap that's replaced the image above 'The Bush family watches tee-ball on the White House lawn'?""
Heck- commercial encyclopedias often PLANT false information on purpose. It's an ages old copyright protection technique in case they have to go to court over it. "So, young Johnny, you say that Angorra really does have a 0% unemployment rate? Oh, well it looks like you plagerized the CIA World Book for your school paper", that sort of thing.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
I didn't claim to be enlightened, scumbag.
Do you claim to be enlightened, with your sick-ass porn site?
If you want a preview, ask the citizens who have been our allies for decades what they think of our President.
We'll that depends. I respect the opinions of your average Canadian or Australian. But I hold the opinions of Germans, Frenchmen and Russians generally in low regard. They're not exactly good judges of leaders. After all they and their leaders, though acts of war, mass-murder and colonialism have managed to kill millions of people of the last 100 years.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
World Book Encyclopedia is one that I know about that does this- it's well known by most teachers as well (or used to be, anyway, before the web) because it's in every library and it's easy to catch kids plagerizing this way. Usually it's in out of the way entries- like in my example pulled at random from a non-commercial one. Who the hell cares what the unemployment rate of Angorra is anyway?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
If you want a preview, ask the citizens who have been our allies for decades what they think of our President.
We'll that depends. I respect the opinions of your average Canadian or Australian. But I hold the opinions of Germans, Frenchmen and Russians generally in low regard. They're not exactly good judges of leaders. After all they and their leaders, though acts of war, mass-murder and colonialism have managed to kill millions of people of the last 100 years.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.