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'Orange is the New Black' fight sparks new House Wikipedia ban
TheHill.com ^ | 08/21/14 09:24 AM | Julian Hattem

Posted on 08/21/2014 5:33:36 PM PDT by pluvmantelo

For the third time this summer, computers in the House have been blocked from editing Wikipedia due to a string of controversial edits.

Anonymous users operating from an Internet Protocol (IP) address linked to the House were banned from editing the site for a month late on Wednesday.

The action came after a series of edits people using the IP address made to pages on the user-generated encyclopedia about transgender people that many on the site considered offensive.


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I learnef a new word from this article. Transphobe. Sure glad I read lots of SF in my youth, cuz even PKDick would be baffled by this post modern looking glass world.
1 posted on 08/21/2014 5:33:36 PM PDT by pluvmantelo
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To: pluvmantelo

Fat finger edit fail. I meant ‘learned’,of course.


2 posted on 08/21/2014 5:37:44 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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To: pluvmantelo

Not to worry. Folks reading at this site are by necessity fluent in both typo and non sequitur.


3 posted on 08/21/2014 5:43:23 PM PDT by dorothy ( "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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“I learned a new word from this article. Transphobe.”

The preferred terminology is “person of normal.” Only slobbering perverts use the word “transphobe.”


4 posted on 08/21/2014 5:59:49 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: JoeDetweiler

Doubleplusgood!


5 posted on 08/21/2014 6:04:04 PM PDT by pluvmantelo (Democrats:the party of moral hazard, the IRS, the NSA and the heckler's veto)
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Can I ask a stupid question?

Why are congressional staffers or House employees, going on Wikipedia and editing it in the first place? Is that really what we taxpayers are paying congressional staff to do during working hours?????


6 posted on 08/21/2014 6:15:43 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: pluvmantelo

“Transphobe”

In other words — a normal person.


7 posted on 08/21/2014 6:17:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: JoeDetweiler

Indeed, child rapists insist their victims are dirty.


8 posted on 08/21/2014 7:07:52 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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Somebody changed “assigned sex” to “biological sex”. These are the kind of “transphobic” statement changes being done. Boy, trannies are trying to change facts of nature to promote their mentally ill behavior.


9 posted on 08/21/2014 7:18:54 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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