Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday December 20, 2008 @01:15AM from the change-we-don't-believe-in dept.

rheotaxis writes "A circuit judge in Arkansas will not order the state to reveal where its computers were used to edit Wikipedia articles about former governor Mike Huckabee while he was running for President. Two Associated Press journalists used WikiScanner to track the edits to IP addresses used by the state. Writer Jon Gambrell and News Editor Kelly P. Kissel filed a suit in October 2007 asking the state to reveal which state offices used the IP addresses, because state rules don't allow using computer resources for political purposes. The director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, Claire Bailey, claimed in court that releasing this information would allow hackers to target these state offices."

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Depends on whose ox is gored... by Stanislav_J · 2008-12-20 02:36 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I'll bet if the Huckabee staffers were accused not of whitewashing Wikipedia articles, but rather downloading copyrighted music on BitTorrent, the tone of this /. discussion would be entirely different. (I'm just sayin'...)
That's OK -- we're all a bit hypocritical about some things. I, myself, have been known to indulge in the fine art of hypocrisy now and then...

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