http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/04/tech-prentice.html
"The government has been editing Minister of Industry Jim Prentice's Wikipedia entry, removing mentions of the recent copyright-reform controversy and hailing the minister as personifying "experience, confidence and competence, ability and capability." [...]"
2008/6/5 Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/04/tech-prentice.html
"The government has been editing Minister of Industry Jim Prentice's Wikipedia entry, removing mentions of the recent copyright-reform controversy and hailing the minister as personifying "experience, confidence and competence, ability and capability." [...]"
To be fair they were trying to counter a fairly high degree of POV pushing.
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, geni wrote:
"The government has been editing Minister of Industry Jim Prentice's Wikipedia entry, removing mentions of the recent copyright-reform controversy and hailing the minister as personifying "experience, confidence and competence, ability and capability." [...]"
To be fair they were trying to counter a fairly high degree of POV pushing.
So was CAMERA, or at least that's what they said. (You can argue that they were doing POV pushing under the guise of removing POV pushing, but the whole CAMERA witchhunt required hardly any on-Wikipedia actions from them at all; merely announcing they intended to counter POV pushing was enough to condemn them.)
Andrew Gray wrote:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/04/tech-prentice.html
"The government has been editing Minister of Industry Jim Prentice's Wikipedia entry, removing mentions of the recent copyright-reform controversy and hailing the minister as personifying "experience, confidence and competence, ability and capability." [...]"
This is delightful!
Canadian government footdragging on this has been just wonderful. While many countries were quick to rush this kind of thing through before the public became aware of the problems. The various governments here hog-tied themselves in their own bureaucracy. Now that they feel ready to move they have just discovered that a controversy has been allowed to grow.
ROTFL Ec