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A Wikipedia Conspiracy and the Wall Street Meltdown
PatrickByrne writes "This is The Register's world-class investigative piece concerning one aspect of the meltdown on Wall Street ('naked short selling') and how the criminals engaged a journalist to distort Wikipedia to confuse the discourse. The article explicitly and formally accuses a well-known US financial journalist, Gary Weiss, of lying about his efforts to distort a Wikipedia page under assumed names, and accuses the Powers That Be in Wikipedia (right up to and including Jimbo Wales) of complicity in protecting Weiss. This is not another story about a 15-year-old farm kid in Iowa pretending to be a professor. This is like the worst Chomskian view of Elites manipulating mass opinion. But it is all documented." We discussed the alleged Wikipedia manipulation when The Register first wrote about it last December. The submitter is the CEO of Overstock.com and a major player in this drama from the beginning.
but real life isn't as interesting as the plot of a steven seagal movie
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Gee, Judd. I wonder why that could be. Might have had something to do with the fact that your definition of "reason to this madness" consisted of abusively using multiple accounts to push your agenda, and launching vicious personal attacks against your opponents.
Come on, Judd. You've got to know you can't actually expect to come to a forum as well-traveled as Slashdot and get away with presenting half the facts like that.
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