Corporations Sneak Through Cyberspace - Unsuccessfully
It amazes me the degree of gatekeeping currently goes on behind the scenes affecting the content of websites. But after reading this I begin to understand the logic behind it.
Corporate companies ranging from Disney to Pepsi to Wal-Mart have all attempted to alter incriminating facts from the international wikipedia database. But Virgil Griffith has launched an unnofficial wikipedia search tool that sifts out anonymous edits made from propaganda moguls through tracking company IP addresses and matching it to wikipedia.
Wikipedia is meant to be a user-friendly un-academic encyclopedia that anyone can edit. But when corporations start using it as a marketing device it's faults outweigh its benefits. Support for wikipedia to sift out spin should be elevated because this website is a tool for public service to broaden our general knowledge.
To an extent, if companies were to smarten up their wiki-spin it would be as simple as using an IP spoofer. This would allow them to write anonymous edits to their wiki pages or even that of their opposition. This move would prove that the internet is unregulated and unaccountable for its actions which is not ideal. Further research and search tools need to be designed to support the security of millions of people that use the internet.
Corporate companies ranging from Disney to Pepsi to Wal-Mart have all attempted to alter incriminating facts from the international wikipedia database. But Virgil Griffith has launched an unnofficial wikipedia search tool that sifts out anonymous edits made from propaganda moguls through tracking company IP addresses and matching it to wikipedia.
Wikipedia is meant to be a user-friendly un-academic encyclopedia that anyone can edit. But when corporations start using it as a marketing device it's faults outweigh its benefits. Support for wikipedia to sift out spin should be elevated because this website is a tool for public service to broaden our general knowledge.
To an extent, if companies were to smarten up their wiki-spin it would be as simple as using an IP spoofer. This would allow them to write anonymous edits to their wiki pages or even that of their opposition. This move would prove that the internet is unregulated and unaccountable for its actions which is not ideal. Further research and search tools need to be designed to support the security of millions of people that use the internet.
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