Re: Wikipedia attacked by Nazis

[TheGesus <thegesus () gmail com>]

The dead are apparently fair game...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bob_Denver&oldid=19193288

On 9/21/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> Godwin's Law invoked on the first post -- discussion ended. :-)
>
> Nick Farrell writes in The Inquirer:
>
> [snip]
>
> NAZIS ATTACKED the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia defacing the references to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who died 
> yesterday.
>
> They added false information about Wiesenthal, claiming he was a homosexual who spent the 1970s looking for older 
> black men.
>
> Wiesenthal was a holocaust survivor who helped track down more than 1000 Nazi war criminals, died in his sleep at 
> home in Vienna yesterday. He was 96.
>
> The changes to the Wikipedia site were not up for long, but can still be seen as the page history is always backed up.
>
> It is the second time that Wikipedia has been targeted by vandals with a cause.
>
> After the death of the pope an anonymous user replaced the image of incoming pope Benedict XVI with the evil emperor 
> from Star Wars. Given it is so easy to do, it is perhaps more surprising that it does not happen more often.
>
> [snip]
>
> http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26346
>
> - ferg
>
>
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