Somebody from Congress edited the "Reptilians" article on wikipedia to add...
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ADevilYouKhow
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get trolled by congress, brehs
ADevilYouKhow
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would they get caught though?that's exactly what a reptilian would write...they're not fooling me!
sometimes there's a glitch in the matrix (that's when you get deja vu)
ADevilYouKhow
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So what happens next?sometimes there's a glitch in the matrix (that's when you get deja vu)
ADevilYouKhow
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nothing, as long as they know I am on to their reptilian agenda
Dr. Sebi Jr.
Trust Me
Every reptile I have ever seen likes to spend some time in the sun, then some time in the shade.
CACs bring umbrellas to the beach.
coincidence??????
CACs bring umbrellas to the beach.
coincidence??????
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Wikipedia blocks 'disruptive' page edits from US Congress
By Joe MillerTechnology Reporter
Computers on Capitol Hill have been banned from making edits to Wikipedia in the past
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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 defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard".
One staffer said they were being banned for the "actions of two or three".
Edits from computers using the IP address belonging to the House of Representatives have been banned before, following similar acts of vandalism.
Continue reading the main story
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Maybe someone at the House of Representatives better think about their IT staff”
Jimmy WalesFounder of Wikipedia
The latest block comes after rogue edits were brought to light by a Twitter feed, @congressedits, which posts every change made from the government-owned address.
'Russian puppet'
One of the acts highlighted was an alteration to the page on the assassination of John F Kennedy, which was changed to say that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting "on behalf of the regime of Fidel Castro".
An entry on the moon landing conspiracy theories was changed to say they were "promoted by the Cuban government".
Another entry, on the Ukrainian politician Nataliya Vitrenko, was edited to claim that she was a "Russian puppet".
The biography of former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was revised, describing him as an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies".
One edit said the Cuban government was behind the murder of John F Kennedy
However the edit that finally brought administrators to ban anonymous edits from the House IP address was made on the entry for media news site Mediaite, describing the blog as "sexist transphobic" and saying that it "automatically assumes that someone is male without any evidence".
Mediaite had previously run a story on the rogue edits from congressional computers.
Counter productive?
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, told the BBC that the incident did not surprise him, and vandalism has "always gone on and it always will".
The MediaIte entry on Wikipedia was edited to say the site was "sexist transphobic"
But he said that the @congressedits Twitter feed may have been counter-productive.
"There is a belief from some of the [Wikipedia] community that it only provoked someone - some prankster there in the office - to have an audience now for the pranks, and actually encouraged them rather than discouraged them."
He added: "Maybe someone at the House of Representatives better think about their IT staff - they might be hunting them down this very moment."
UK government edits
Earlier this year, the BBC discovered that the phrase "all Muslims are terrorists" was added to a page about veils by users of UK government computers.
One edit wrote that moon landing conspiracy theories were endorsed by Cuba
That followed a report by the Liverpool Echo which found that insults had been added to the entry for the Hillsborough disaster.
Wikipedia allows any user to make changes to a page, even anonymously.
However, the changes are policed by volunteers, known as Wikipedians, who can reverse false edits, and even impose bans on users who continually flout the site's editing rules.
Collective punishment
Wikipedians have been warning editors from the House of Representatives since March 2012, and moved to block the address for one day earlier this month.
On Thursday, the IP address was blocked for 10 days, but one staffer protested that they were being punished for the actions of a few.
Donald Rumsfeld's biography was altered to say he was an "alien lizard"
"Out of over 9,000 staffers in the House, should we really be banning this whole IP range based on the actions of two or three?
"Some of us here are just making grammatical edits, adding information about birds in Omsk, or showing how one can patch KDE2 under FreeBSD."
Another user from the Hill was quick to dismiss suggestions that the rogue edits were made by elected officials.
"I think the probability is near zero that these disruptive edits are being done by a member of Congress."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28481876
By Joe MillerTechnology Reporter
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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 defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard".
One staffer said they were being banned for the "actions of two or three".
Edits from computers using the IP address belonging to the House of Representatives have been banned before, following similar acts of vandalism.
Continue reading the main story
“Start Quote
Maybe someone at the House of Representatives better think about their IT staff”
Jimmy WalesFounder of Wikipedia
The latest block comes after rogue edits were brought to light by a Twitter feed, @congressedits, which posts every change made from the government-owned address.
'Russian puppet'
One of the acts highlighted was an alteration to the page on the assassination of John F Kennedy, which was changed to say that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting "on behalf of the regime of Fidel Castro".
An entry on the moon landing conspiracy theories was changed to say they were "promoted by the Cuban government".
Another entry, on the Ukrainian politician Nataliya Vitrenko, was edited to claim that she was a "Russian puppet".
The biography of former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was revised, describing him as an "alien lizard who eats Mexican babies".
However the edit that finally brought administrators to ban anonymous edits from the House IP address was made on the entry for media news site Mediaite, describing the blog as "sexist transphobic" and saying that it "automatically assumes that someone is male without any evidence".
Mediaite had previously run a story on the rogue edits from congressional computers.
Counter productive?
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, told the BBC that the incident did not surprise him, and vandalism has "always gone on and it always will".
But he said that the @congressedits Twitter feed may have been counter-productive.
"There is a belief from some of the [Wikipedia] community that it only provoked someone - some prankster there in the office - to have an audience now for the pranks, and actually encouraged them rather than discouraged them."
He added: "Maybe someone at the House of Representatives better think about their IT staff - they might be hunting them down this very moment."
UK government edits
Earlier this year, the BBC discovered that the phrase "all Muslims are terrorists" was added to a page about veils by users of UK government computers.
That followed a report by the Liverpool Echo which found that insults had been added to the entry for the Hillsborough disaster.
Wikipedia allows any user to make changes to a page, even anonymously.
However, the changes are policed by volunteers, known as Wikipedians, who can reverse false edits, and even impose bans on users who continually flout the site's editing rules.
Collective punishment
Wikipedians have been warning editors from the House of Representatives since March 2012, and moved to block the address for one day earlier this month.
On Thursday, the IP address was blocked for 10 days, but one staffer protested that they were being punished for the actions of a few.
"Out of over 9,000 staffers in the House, should we really be banning this whole IP range based on the actions of two or three?
"Some of us here are just making grammatical edits, adding information about birds in Omsk, or showing how one can patch KDE2 under FreeBSD."
Another user from the Hill was quick to dismiss suggestions that the rogue edits were made by elected officials.
"I think the probability is near zero that these disruptive edits are being done by a member of Congress."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28481876