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[beeseven]

http://www.dailytech...aspx?newsid=536

U.S. Representative Marty Meehan (D, Massachusetts) has had his staff edit his Wikipedia page to eliminate negative information and strech truthful, positive things. Apparently the IP range 153.33.xxx.xxx has been blocked in the past for vandalism and violation of Wiki policies. This range is reserved for the U.S. House and Senate. Now it is getting permanently banned from editing articles as a result of continued violation.

[Iriacynthe]

It's really sad how some members of the government are still so arrogant that they believe they have the right to do things like this. What Wiki did, in my opinion, was far more effective than any other approach...and it's a bit amusing too.

[tdktank59]

YEs my life is nearing completion lol!!!
the goverment has finally been pwnt lol!!!

im happy now! the government needs to stfu and stop tryin to make the world better by hiding the truth from the damn people..

we also need to get rid of the sue happy people who will sue for the stupidist things... and also the damn copyrights on eveything that really cant be owned... such as GENES... in our own bodies wtf is up with this lol...

some crazy amont of the human genes have copyrights on them so no one can even use them...

so that means that when someone finds a cure for cancer by usign a gene thats copyrighted not by them... well guess what its going to go to court and the drug/alteration will never make it to the damn shelfs... itll be taken by the government and put into storage and never used... when we really do need to solve the problem...


man i really hate this fing government...

[terminal2k]

ahahahahaha thats really funny, and definatly deserved by the US government. Some people think they can get away with anything because of who they are and what they do, nice to see the guys at wiki taking care of business

[Albus Dumbledore]

i think the editing tool is a good thing, but only if someone ads proper information to the page.i have done it once or twice during school projects..and i find it fun lmao...stupid congress trying to distupt the internet and the information, i wonder if they know allot of people use that for school projects.....and if they knew, it shows how much they care about our education, in which any other time they pretend to be sooo concerned about it.. i am supprised they didn't try and edit the information on weapons of mass destruction or osoma bin laden etc..lord knows they have screwed up enough but thats all im going to say!

Edited by Albus Dumbledore, 06 February 2006 - 05:14 AM.

[silentwind]

hahahaha, shaem on you US!!!

[kelvinismyname]

Why is it the Government always want to control things..! the

information on the wikipedia is suppossed to be true and accurate, but

as the case with all government ppl, they feel that the only way they

can look good to the public is by protarying wrong and un-thruthfull

so they wana take advantage of such a good internet resource

all they care about is there selves, and it seems they are willing to go to

any level to send un-truthfull messages to the public

. its good to see that they did not succeed this time,wikepedia is right to bann their Ip's

[stlgoalie]

welcome to the classic battle over who controls the information. The other part of this is the fact that for all the good stuff on the internet, there is so much crap. I remember in college when I first started using the intenet for research, most of the hits I'd get in Altavista or Google were from professor's websites at other colleges. Good quoteable content, but in my last two years and in to grad school I found myself returning to Lexis-Nexis and Ebscohost to access print articles online for research.

Wikipedia is handy to look up general topics, but I'm not sure I'd rely on it as absolute truth. The problem when you open things up to anyone is that anyone can access it, the good along with the bad.

Although I will say this, if the roles were reversed and the government banned the IP block range for Wikipedia's servers, everyone would be crying bloody foul...

What if PETA or the ACLU edited their own page and got banned, I wonder if people would be outraged at Wikipedia...

Edited by stlgoalie, 06 February 2006 - 03:28 PM.

[wariorpk]

Everyone here is bashing the people from the United States government who edit their own pages. While I do not think this was the best thing to do I think that they had some justification. If someone were to create a web page saying the bad things you have done wouldn't you want the page changed? It is fully possible that this representative did not think the information was true and if he thought it was not he did what every person who knows something about a topic on Wikipedia would do and that is edit it.

[michaelper22]

Yeah, wait till the government sees this thread. Man, I only found one tiny little thing to change on WikiPedia, yet the gov. seems to want to edit (or even take down) the whole darn site! Way to go Wikipedia for banning the feds. Message to U.S. Representative Marty Meehan (D, Massachusetts) and his friends: Ever hear of freedom of the press? Well if you didn't, then it means that we can write preety much anything we want, WITHOUT your intervention!