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Thursday 13 December 2007, 3:21 PM
US government censors Wikipedia?
According to an article in
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Controlling the web 2.0
Thats some interesting news, especially the alleged Digg vote fixing.
On the matter of wikipedia, I wondered if it every occured to them, that the "history tab" link at the top of a Wiki page doesn't related to historical world events, but the history of that wiki page and highlights and logs all changes made.
Creates a very interesting question about the web 2.0 arena. If a large group were to actively poison community driven content what would be the impact and repercustions, on a local and global scale?
How many people read those site per day and how many would believe?
That people modify Wikipedia articles to suit their own agenda is old news. This article however seems to have more to do with the author's political biases than anything else. Not only people in favor of Bush administration policies edit online resources - President Bush's political adversaries do the same thing, but you mention nothing about them. Your political bias is especially evident in your statements about WMDs, which has nothing whatsoever to do with the subject of Wikipedia tampering.
