Censorship Articles

Know what happens when the honor code of the Internet is broken? Apparently nothing.

When WikiScanner, a program that allows users to track the source of computers used to make changes to the online encyclopedia, revealed that people using computers at the CIA and FBI edited entries in Wikipedia, it caused quite a stir — covered in brief by Angela Natividad.

WikiScanner found that while CIA computers were editing entries on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the FBI was busy removing aerial and satellite images of the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But beyond violating Wikipedia’s recommended guidelines, there have been no direct consequences for the parties involved.