Re:Politicians (Score 2, Insightful)

Everyone complains about how the internet should be a place of freedom with little or no regulation. Everyone wants government to stay out of it and let people be free to publish and write what they want. Unless, I guess, the free person happens to be a member of the government you might despise. From what I can tell, the govt officials made no attempt to hide or mask their point of origin. Wiki puts out information about people's bios, and invites any old regular Joe to make changes to it. But we are outraged when the person himself or people who actually know the person are the ones making the changes. Their format also leaves them open for posters with limited knowledge or malicious intent. So should we have congress pass a law regulating who can go to sites like this and make changes? Is that what we want? I just went to Wikipedia. I brought up Apollo 13. I could have added myself to the backup crew for the mission. We are so quick to condemn government as the source of all that is wrong with everything. Wiki has chosen a format that allows information to be read and updated by just about anyone who visits. Maybe THEY should be blamed for the way they gather and publish research?