Wikiality Bites
If you think that the Conservatives are not trying to control your reality by controlling the information you receive, check out this story from the CBC:
Government buffing Prentice's Wikipedia entry
"Among the information removed by Industry Canada employees were some paragraphs including speculation, such as:
'Prentice has been responsible for developing new Canadian Intellectual Property laws akin to the DMCA in the United States, partly due to pressure from US-based advocacy groups. While he had promised to 'put consumers first,' the draft legislation seems to cater strictly to industrial groups and Prentice has now suggested consumer interests may not be heard for years. Indeed, Prentice has refused to talk to a group of protesters who went to his office to express their concern.'"
Recently added glowing language about the Minister and his planned legislation has also been traced back to an Industry Canada IP address. A commenter named david999 on the CBC site says it best:
"If Prentice's staffers are not bright enough to carry their laptops around the corner to the nearest Starbucks and edit his entry from there (where their IP addresses wouldn't be traced back to Industry Canada), they're definitely not bright enough to draft new Internet copyright legislation."
Comments
Sounds like Big Brother is trying to watch - only they're a few years late!
Aldous Huxley thought of it already .
Posted by: Dee at June 30, 2008 11:39 AM