Congressional Networks Banned from Wikipedia

Posted by Matthew Kennedy

The politicians on Capitol Hill have been keeping their underlings busy lately. Not with work, but instead, filling Wikipedia up with sanctioned biographies from the Senators and Representatives themselves. Oftentimes these Congressional staffers will simply remove what had been written prior to their interference, and write completely new articles putting a spin on their particular "boss's" perceived image. Of course it doesn't stop there, they also go and smear their opposition on Wikipedia too! No wonder these people get paid the big bucks; they sit around all day writing propaganda for everyone to "consume". Why, they'll even spoon feed it to us too!

I'm not entirely surprised by all of this. When I visited Washington D.C. last year and sat in on the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, they were bickering worse than high-school kids. These days most of the politicians in Washington put more effort into supporting big industry and whatever party they're affiliated with than they do the constituents that voted them into office. And now they're wasting government time trying to polish their image on an open encyclopedia. Do these people not have enough to do at work?

Seriously though, if they want someone dedicated to spinning their story and spamming it all over Wikipedia, they should hire me. I could do it a lot more covertly than they've been doing, and they wouldn't be in the pickle of having the entire Congressional IP address-space banned from editing on Wikipedia with longer lasting solutions on the horizon. Congratulations on that one.

I have to say one thing, I've definitely lost a lot of faith in our government over the past five years. Between President Bush and Congress, it's no wonder we're dealing with the problems we have now. They're too busy wasting their time on stuff that doesn't matter, like Wikipedia!

- from PrezKennedy.org -