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Wal-mart's Wikipedia War
An anonymous reader writes "Whitedust is running an article which claims that lobbyists for Wal-mart have successfully waged a war against a fair viewpoint on Wikipedia's Wal-mart page. From the article: "Although Wikipedia maintains a 'Neutral Point of View' (NPOV) policy, the Wal-mart page is highly biased. Additionally, all criticism has, contrary to policy, practice, and the general opinion of those concerned, been moved to a Debates Over Wal-mart section. Even that page has noticeable resistance to negative points of view about Wal-mart."
Wow, that's quite a security expert there! I wonder how much it would cost to hire Whitedust Security to hang out on IRC and make up conspiracy theories about people attacking my network?
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Wait a minute? Some people consider Wal-Mart to be a "great satan"? I thought SCO was the "great satan". Or was it the Oil Companies?
Now I'm really confused....Maybe I should look up Great Satan on Wikipedia. Oh, damn! I LIVE in the Great Satan! Is there some pill or something I can take for that?
At least not until we get that whole telepathy thing down.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
From the Discussion page:
... Goodwin's law.
Adolf Hitler was the fuehrer of Germany, who reformed the German economy in the 1930s. He enjoyed painting and playing with his dog. He married his lifelong sweetheart, Eva Braun, two days prior to his death.
See also: Criticism of Adolf Hitler
Seems fair to me.
I know, I know
Before anybody says anything I am already married. :P
You got the touch!
And here I thought that we kept all our lobbyists tied up with DC and off the internet.
If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance -- Derek Bok, president of Harvard
Wal-Mart has never contradicted this story
What's your point; Walmart should defend itself against every loony charge or it is automatically guilty? Hey, can I do that too?
Walmart control the Illuminati.
Dan Brown wrote The DaVinci Code under orders from Walmart.
Walmart faked the moon landings.
The head of Walmart is one of the elder gods, and all employees sacrifice their soul to Him upon employment.
Walmart is responsible for Global Warming and Global Cooling, the bastards!
Area51 is really an Intergalatic Walmart.
Walmart didn't deny them! They must be true!
Ah, but we DID find WMD's in Iraq.
...GOD-DAMMIT, WHO STOLE MY MEDS!
However, since they were highly advanced biological weapons developed with the help of ex-Soviet scientists, we hid the discovery. These bio-weapons are being further developed in the hope that they can later be deployed against the Chinese, the Iranians, the North Koreans and, of course, the French...
How someone could claim article that begins with...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) (also known as 'The Great Satan', or 'Satan-Mart')
Isn't neutral! Thats as neutral view of Wal-Mart as possible!
Emacs is good operating system, but it has one flaw: Its text editor could be better.
How does one accuse someone of nativity?
No really, I want to know....
right - just as subjective as the subjective statement that all truth is subjective. Why even talk?
Last time I was at Wal-Mart, they kidnapped my kid sister, and stole her clothes so they could restock some children's clothing (ever wonder where those LOW, LOW prices come from??) They then threw her into the street stark naked, but not before taking photos for their highly profitable underground child porno ring.
Then I also read that every mother, before having her baby, has lab results sent to Wal-Mart, at her expense. If the Wal-Mart lab results determine that the fetus's liver does not have enough beta-9 proteins by the end of the first trimester, 85% of women will abort the baby, because she will be unable to sell a portion of the baby's liver to Wal-Mart at birth, thus covering her birthing costs and starting the nest egg for the child's college education.
How far will Wal-Mart's control over our lives go? When will we draw the line? What about the children??
Finally, how can we forget the CNN Headline News report that Wal-Mart is responsible for slaughtering dozens of oceanic dolphins with cyanide-laced harpoons -- just for fun -- during executive "team building" sessions. What next???
I'm not a Troll, it's reverse psychology.
Wow, Ben, when you said that you were good at manipulating opinion online through the use of public forums in order to present a positive spin on criticisms towards our business model, I didn't realize you were quite this good at it!
- Walmart.
Here's how I read your post:
[unsupported assertion] [speculation]
[anecdotal evidence] [moral relativity] [faulty logic: more stores does not equal more buying power, more money equals more buying power.] [unsupported assertion]
[unsupported assertion] [faulty logic: price of stock is no indicator of corporate greed or lack thereof] [unsupported assertion] [faulty generalization, not to mention failing to account for other reasons why the price of one item would be kept below market: loss-leader]
[undocumented claims][false reasoning][undocumented claims][incomplete comparison: what are Walmart's numbers? Does the legal requirement have anything to do with it?]
[anecdotal evidence][unsupported assertion combined with generalization]
[ad hominem attack][faulty assumption: will we tolerate anything in the name of lower prices?] [faulty assumption: is Walmart really the only store offering affordable prices?][unsupported assertion][undocumented claim][unsupported assertion][statement of opinion, thankfully labelled as such] [unsupported assertion][unsupported assertion]
I went to the city because I wished to live without deliberation.
You know, i think you might have just won "Troll of the month" with that gem. Superb!