30
Jan
Politics and Web Discussion. |
Wikipedia as a political tool.
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- Richard Pombo (Removing referenced to possible ties to Jack Abramoff and many other npov yet politically damaging items)
- Trent Lott (editing references to his rumored actions…)
- Phil Gramm (removing quotes I wouldn’t want anyone to see if I had to run for re-election)
- Rick Renzi (removing a section titled “Ethical Questions”)
- Jim Ramstad (removing reference to his “moderate\ liberal” tendencies)
- Trent Franks (replacing article with official House bio)
- Darrell Issa (removing references to pro-palestinian actions)
- Talk:Jim Nussle (removing talk section titles ‘Republican conspiracy’)
- Jim Nussle (removing references to his divorce)
- Darrell Issa (removing quotes supporting Hezbollah)
- Rick Renzi (replacing article with official House bio)
- Rodney Frelinghuysen (removing information about financial contributions)
- Sam Johnson (removing unflattering quotes)
- Mark Green (removing references to “unethical campaign finance practices, “references to his ties with Tom DeLay, and other unflattering details)
- David Dreier (removing unflattering information about his 2004 campaign)
- Jerry Weller (adding self promoting crap and removing questions of a conflict of interest)
- Bob Taft (removing ties to Abramoff)
- Ward Connerly (adding libelous comment)
- Ralph Neas (attempting to categorize him as “socialist”)
- MoveOn (changing liberal to “left-wing”)
- 2003 Invasion of Iraq (Suggesting a link between Iraq and al Qaeda),
- Eric Burns (political strategist) (blanking article)
- Randy Kuhl (removing scandal-related information)
- Jim Sensenbrenner (removing information in “Controversy” section)
- Nancy Pelosi (entering libelous statements)
A little more here.
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And now, an obligatory rhetorical question that no one answers, discusses, or learns from, but that make me feel smarter:
WILL OPEN-SOURCE MEDIUMS BE CONTROLLED BY PARTIES WITH VESTED INTERESTS?
HMMMM.
It’s just like lobbying– it affects everyone who uses it because they’ll end up with bad information, but it all comes down to who cares the most. With Wikipedia though, I don’t think we have much to worry about– abuse will always be discovered and corrected cause it doesn’t cost anything to monitor what’s what.
Is anybody having a SOTU watching party? I can’t play the drinking game by myself. Well, I can, but that game is called alcoholism.
Yeah, the Wikipedia community is fantastic, and I’d like to assume most Wikipedia readers are smart enough to pick up on most forms of inserted propanda anyway (although item removal sure is hard to spot).
I know of no one who will have this party. I can’t imagine a quantity of alcohol that would make it tolerable, so I might try Thai food and tag-team obscenity-shouting instead.
Make sure you get all prepped by watching the ThinkProgress SOTU primer!