[WikiEN-l] Another set of political edits
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Fri Jun 6 00:07:31 UTC 2008
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
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