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Thu Dec-09-04 10:41 AM
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It may not be a generally well known fact that a senior UK High Court judge last month hearing a gross defamation/libel/extortion lawsuit quoted MI5 head Eliza Manningham-Buller's professional opinion that Wikipedia is "the ultimate temple of disinformation in the internet's golden age of revisionism".
If she's right, then things are looking somewhat bleak round here....
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Thu Dec-09-04 10:43 AM
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1. What does that have to do with DU? |
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We're only using their software, not their content.
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Thu Dec-09-04 10:47 AM
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2. If the one is tainted what does that say of the other?? |
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Thu Dec-09-04 12:46 PM
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14. It says that the other uses their software. |
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Even if Wikipedia is "tainted", the content is "tainted", not the API.
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Thu Dec-09-04 10:56 AM
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3. I have to say, that's the stupidest thing I've read today |
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I don't even know what to say to this.
It's just a ridiculous notion that the software that runs a website determines it's credibility.
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:06 AM
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4. Didn't say that. Quoted MI5's EMB on the quality of Wikipedia's |
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content. That she should make such a comment is relevant and notable.
It's software credibility can be assessed in the light of such remarks.
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:09 AM
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7. Yup and the hardware credibility of an automobile can be |
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determined by the people and luggage it is carrying.
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:12 AM
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9. If the "message" is crap, what does that say about the |
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:14 AM
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Who's there?
Irony.
Irony who?
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:14 AM
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If I own a notebook, whether I put a college thesis in it or fill it with doodles has absolutely no bearing on the nature of the notebook itself.
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Thu Dec-09-04 12:47 PM
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15. Straight line of the year, that post is... |
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:09 AM
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5. And the MI5 has never spread disinformation? |
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Please. This is one person's comment, and it might not even be her opinion.
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:11 AM
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8. It was her professional opinion when asked to testify in the High |
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Court lawsuit. Not some private whimsy.
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:09 AM
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6. It has the Voice of the People. |
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And people in power don't like that.
Think. What should a HONEST encyclopedia have in the entry for, say, "Department of Homeland Security"?
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:14 AM
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10. Junior's criminal records? |
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Thu Dec-09-04 11:17 AM
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Thu Dec-09-04 12:49 PM
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16. What on earth are you talking about? |
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So if that report about Bush's ANG records was written using Microsoft Word, in your not-so-logical-world, all documents written in word are now suspect.
Sheesh...
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