Wikipedia Bans US Department of Justice After DOJ Attempts to Rewrite History

[mandy]

Wikipedia has temporarily blocked edits from the US Department of Justice after someone inside the government agency tried to erase references to a particularly-controversial Wiki-scandal.

Early last week, the Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) was accused of organizing a secret campaign to influence certain articles on the "free encyclopedia anyone can edit". Just days later, the DoJ's IP range was used to edit the site's entry on the Pro-Israel "media-monitoring group," lifting a new section that detailed the controversy...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/...ed_doj_ip/

[BellisimaJ.]

Too funny, and serves the boinktards right!