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Wikipedia Blocks 'Disruptive' Edits From US Congress

Posted by Soulskill on from the history-no-longer-written-by-the-victors dept.

alphatel writes: Wikipedia has blocked anonymous edits from a congressional IP address for 10 days because of "disruptive" behavior. These otherwise anonymous edits were brought to light recently by @Congressedits, a bot that automatically tweets Wikipedia changes that come from Congressional IP addresses. The biography of former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies." Mediaite's Wikipedia page was modified to label the site as a "sexist transphobic" publication.

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  1. Yeah, "disruptive" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The biography of former U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies."

    His unmasking isn't supposed to happen for another 20 years, now our plan is shot to hell.

    Damn meddling kids mumble mumble...

  2. I take offense! by timrod · · Score: 5, Funny

    I take offense to the idea that Donald Rumsfeld is some kind of racist who only eats Mexican babies. Donald Rumsfeld isn't a racist - he eats babies of all races equally, without taking the color of their skin or their nationality into consideration. Have a little respect for the man!

    1. Re:I take offense! by operagost · · Score: 5, Informative

      Our second problem is that we have voters who never learned in school that there were plenty of African Americans in the military, but they were segregated thanks to progressive President Wilson. They also like to pretend that the Nazi party was ever a legitimate party in the USA, when it's the ever-enlightended Europeans and progressive darlings like George Bernard Shaw who liked both the Nazi party and Stalin.

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  3. If anybody cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:143.231.249.138

  4. Wikipedia Never Bans Vandals? by wisnoskij · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looking into this, this ip address has been vandalising Wikipedia for over 4 years now...

    Wikipedia does not ban people who repeatedly vandalise their site, over a period of years?

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