Wikipedia Blocks Suspicious Edits From DoJ

kylehase writes "The release of Wikiscanner last year brought much attention to white-washing of controversial pages on the community-generated encyclopedia. Apparently Wikipedia is very serious in fighting such behavior as they've temporarily blocked the US Department of Justice from editing pages for suspicious edits."

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Re:Our long national nighmare is almost over

[Anonymous Coward]

I've always liked the way that Switzerland does it. The government is still basically representative, but when the government passes a law that's really not what anybody wants, there are mechanisms in place to get the law overturned by referendum. You get all the benefits of a representative democracy with a little added protection against stupid or greedy lawmakers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland#Direct_democracy