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Dugg: "Fox News Caught Editing Wikipedia [Changes Included]"

"Virgil Griffith, a good friend and fellow hacker, reminds us today that anonymity on the internet does not really exist. Finding out that someone from the Fox News network changed this..."

It's not just Fox, though that of course attracts the most attention on Digg. Apparently people using computers from the CIA, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Vatican, Diebold (the voting machine company), and the Canadian government have dishonestly tampered with articles.

As great as Virgil Griffiths' work has been in outing these intellectual perverts, he can only slow the inevitable. Powerful people who want to disingenuously influence public opinion will find a way to do it anonymously. They threaten Wikipedia, and all that it means to the millions of people who use it. And just as Wikipedia is not alone in spreading information, aiding communication, and allowing expression, so is the rest of the internet threatened by the ulterior motives of unscrupulous people. It's not just protecting net neutrality that we have to worry about.

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