Why should we trust them to run the country?
Wikipedia Blocking Congress from editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia administrators have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of Representatives, following “persistent disruptive editingâ€.
The 10-day block comes after anonymous changes were made to entries on politicians and businesses, as well as events like the Kennedy assassination.
The biography of former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an “alien lizardâ€.
One staffer said they were being banned for the “actions of two or threeâ€.
Edits from computers using the IP address belonging to the House of Representatives have been banned before, following similar acts of vandalism.
Oh wait, we don’t trust them to run the country. And yet they do.
Note that Wikipedia’s “community editors” have been for years censoring and banning people who question the PC orthodoxy on “global warming,” “environmentalism,” and psychiatry.
They’ve also been blocking IP addresses originating from corporate-assigned blocks from adding or editing information for years.
So, another aspect of the story here is that “the free and open encyclopedia that anyone can edit” is anything but.