Senate IP address vandalizes Wikipedia to scrub "torture" from CIA torture report

Cory Doctorow 4:00 pm Thu Dec 11, 2014

An anonymous editor at 156.33.241.11 — registered to the US Senate — has repeatedly attempted to scrub the word "torture" from the Wikipedia entry from Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture.

Attempts on Dec 9 and Dec 10 to remove references to "torture" were reverted by other Wikipedians. These edits — and others — can be read by following @congressedits, a twitterbot that tweets new Wikipedia edits from IPs registered to the US Congress (previously).

Senate staffer tries to scrub 'torture' reference from Wikipedia's CIA torture article [Brian Ries/Mashable]

(via Reddit)

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