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Politicans manipulate web info
Daily Free Press ^
| February 16, 2006
| Ursula Remy
Posted on 02/15/2006 5:51:23 PM PST by yoe
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has blocked Capitol Hill users from accessing the site indefinitely after members of legislative staff have been caught deleting or unfairly editing politicians' profiles - including U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) - to cast them in a favorable light.
One of Meehan's summer interns altered the congressman's profile on the Wikipedia website to remove an old promise that he would limit his service to four terms, according to Wiki-news administrator Wayne Faewyc.
[snip] "A recent article reported that in July 2005 an intern in my office responsible for updating my biography also updated a discussion entry about me on a website called Wikipedia," Meehan said in a statement issued by Bryan DeAngelis, district press secretary for Lowell.
[snip] "Wikipedia is a website where anyone can add or delete anything they want in the various discussion pages. Tempting as it may have been to get involved, our intern should not have. Part of being an elected official is to be regularly commented on, praised and criticized on the web. This is an online dialogue that is best left to the general public," Meehan said in a public statement in Washington.
[snip] Faewyc said Wikipedia knows immediately when Representatives edit their Wikipedia profiles, and occasionally, the Representatives profiles are altered in an untruthful manner.
[snip] "It only takes us a few minutes to realize when a profile has been edited. The House of Representatives has edited several profiles, not always removing factual information." Faewyc said. "In fact they add a lot of useful information to our profiles, but every now and then, several edits are posted which either remove information we had proven was real, or alterations are made to spin a political statement."
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:51:23 PM PST
by
yoe
To: yoe
Now don't you think that web sites have a "responsibility" to delete information that could be considered sensitive for left wing voters?
I mean, I'm not advocating censorship - I just don't think speech like this should be allowed.
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:54:13 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
To: Tzimisce
Joe Biden had his minions doctor his recently.
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posted on
02/15/2006 5:59:41 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: yoe
convenient....no backup.....delete.....no record(s)
Now wait a minute there bub!!
This sounds like what happened to my last weekend column, once the editor read it. Imagine... it only took one FBI file missing in the Nixon Administration for the old media to have a hissy fit. Deleting congressional records.....one would think the old media would be having those persons deleting the records for lunch......but those deleting the records are demonrats.....so no further analysis is necessary. "It makes perfect sense, It makes perfect sense, It makes perfect sense," those deleting the records chimed in unison, with the data bits clinging to their fingers, and all was well in fantasy DC land. But out there in the distance lurked the truth, hidden under a rock, buried 40 feet down a shaft of no finding, for it wasn't the truthful DC we were living but rather the fantasy DC and thus fiction continued to be more factual the truth. Who would have thunk it, certainly not I?
To: ncountylee
Not surprised at all to find that Joe's subalterns and evil minions know about Wikipedia.
Frankly I find it personally very entertaining to rewrite Wikipedia materials, particularly where I can provide a "new source" or two.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:10:28 PM PST
by
muawiyah
(-)
To: yoe
Revisionary History of the future. It lasts about...oh, about 10 minutes.
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posted on
02/15/2006 6:12:02 PM PST
by
bannie
(The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
To: no-to-illegals
factual 'than' the truth me thinks....LOL sorry for the error
To: yoe
Pales in comparison to what the politicians do to the Congressional Record.
To: bannie
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posted on
02/15/2006 7:25:00 PM PST
by
weegee
(We are all Danes now.)
To: Iwentsouth
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posted on
02/15/2006 7:25:13 PM PST
by
weegee
(We are all Danes now.)
To: yoe
I generally consider wiki a suspect source. It was hard enough to discern fact from fiction before its arrival; it seems to be a useful tool for anyone with an agenda.
For instance, though it seems changed now, at one time, the majority of information available on Newton and his religious views was verbatim from a muslim website (who might be suspected to want to focus on his not typically trinitarian views, for their own reasons).
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posted on
02/15/2006 8:58:08 PM PST
by
Apogee
To: yoe
Wikipedia.com - the most unbelievable web site in the world.
My new tag J
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posted on
02/15/2006 10:03:14 PM PST
by
upchuck
(Wikipedia.com - the most unbelievable web site in the world.)
To: Apogee; upchuck
Yeah, the Muslims-and their useful idiots on that website-basically define everything related to religion-and many other politically-charged entries-and exert a stranglehold over information.
The article on Shiism is a joke.
It basically reads like a piece of political agitprop, in addition to being replete with numerous grammatical and spelling errors.
Whenever you entrust people whose religion does not consider lying-per se-an evil with the job of "fact-checking" you're not going to be pleased with the results, unless you belong to the same cult.
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posted on
02/16/2006 11:01:46 AM PST
by
Do not dub me shapka broham
("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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