Now, this is fascinating…

Lifted from insom­nius, because I’ve been very lazy and not work­ing on Wikipedia/Wikinews recently, so I was unaware of this:

I’m sure you’ll see this splattered all over your inter­net, but I think it’s hil­ari­ous that the block of IP addresses used by US Con­gress has appar­ently been banned from Wiki­pe­dia (for edit­ing pur­poses, that is). I say appar­ently because, while that’s what all the links I’ve seen are saying, I’m yet to see the state­ment that says the IPs are actu­ally banned.

I guess that’s what hap­pens when you act like an annoy­ing Wiki­pe­dia-vandal-kid, while actu­ally being paid by Con­gress and really easy to track down.

Ha ha ha.

Wow. Exactly the sort of thing I was talk­ing about writ­ing a thesis on: is it pos­sible to main­tain neut­ral­ity in an open pub­lish­ing world or, con­versely, does an open pub­lish­ing world actu­ally reveal the lack of neut­ral­ity in the main­stream media. How much of main­stream new is sim­il­arly white­washed but we never hear about it?