{"id":174,"date":"2006-01-30T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T18:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/30\/truth-and-transparency\/"},"modified":"2006-01-30T14:43:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T18:43:50","slug":"truth-and-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2006\/01\/30\/truth-and-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth and Transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1130'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I learned from slashdot that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Wikipedia<\/a> has just posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment\/United_States_Congress\">RFC<\/a> on Congressional staffers who <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=06\/01\/29\/1732238&amp;tid=95\">clean and vandalize<\/a><br \/>\nthe pages on the site.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve blocked the Congressional IP<br \/>\nranges until they are done analyzing this issue (that doesn&#8217;t stop a<br \/>\nstaffer from continuing to edit and add material from his home<br \/>\ncomputer, though). I find the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment\/United_States_Congress#US_Senate_IP_breakdown\">section of the RFC<\/a><br \/>\nthat breaks down the types of edits for the Senate IP numbers to be of<br \/>\nparticular interest (they&#8217;ve labelled each edit: legitimate, bad faith<br \/>\nedit, or vandalism by IP address).&nbsp; It&#8217;s odd to see the commons<br \/>\nstrike back with transparency.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/30\/business\/30cnd-exxon.html?hp&amp;ex=1138683600&amp;en=ed7ac90463244e93&amp;ei=5094&amp;partner=homepage\">Good news for Exxon<\/a>: They&#8217;ve recorded the largest annual profits for an American company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/4660938.stm\">Bad news for us<\/a>: Another, &#8220;we may be approaching the point in greenhouse gas emissions where global warming becomes irreversible&#8221; story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned from slashdot that Wikipedia has just posted an RFC on Congressional staffers who clean and vandalize the pages on the site.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve blocked the Congressional IP ranges until they are done analyzing this issue (that doesn&#8217;t stop a staffer from continuing to edit and add material from his home computer, though). I find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}