http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2004_10_14.shtml#1098119066
I'll be blogging about this in the morning, but I did want to say that I think Orin Kerr is right about this particular entry, but wrong about how wikipedia works and the degree of commitment that the community has to getting it right.
In particular, I think he's wrong about this part:
If I understand accurately how Wikipedia works -- a big 'if,' I should point out -- my views of what is in the Patriot Act are no more and no less valued by Wikipedia than the views of any other Internet user.
About this, I very much think he's wrong. Certainly I am not aware of any serious support for this kind of wholesale intellectual relativism in any wikipedia discussions. Instead, there's always an underlying and thorough commitment to _getting it right_.
I do wonder how, in the long run, we will deal more effectively with the kind of POV warrioring that leads to entries like this one... where politically motivated hysteria leads to blatant factual errors.
--Jimbo