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Aug
17
Plunderbund was first on this topic two days ago.
Then, today, I heard this story on NPR’s Morning Edition. That story referenced this article in Wired magazine, “See Who’s Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign.”
About Ohio’s very own love-child, Diebold:
Voting-machine company Diebold provides a good example of the latter ["deleting whole "swaths" of information"], with someone at the company’s IP address apparently deleting long paragraphs detailing the security industry’s concerns over the integrity of their voting machines, and information about the company’s CEO’s fund-raising for President Bush.
The text, deleted in November 2005, was quickly restored by another Wikipedia contributor, who advised the anonymous editor, “Please stop removing content from Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism.”
A Diebold Election Systems spokesman said he’d look into the matter but could not comment by press time.
I am shocked, simply. utterly. Shocked. by this behavior.
VSAS: 8
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:28 am August 17th, 2007 in Politics
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