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IP addresses linked to the New York Police Department's computer network have been used to sanitize Wikipedia entries about cases of police brutality.
This wouldn't be the first time we've seen nefarious alterations to Wikipedia entries, and it won't be the last. But the disclosure of NYPD's entries by Capital New York come as the Justice Department announced a national initiative for "building community trust and justice" with the nation's policing agencies.
As many as 85 IP addresses connected to 1 Police Plaza altered entries for some of the most high-profile police abuse cases, including those for victims Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo, Capital New York said. Edits have also been made to other entries covering NYPD scandals, its stop-and-frisk program, and the department leadership.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 16 2015, @11:16PM
This is a non-story. EVERYBODY who has an article about them has an interest in Perhaps the police were removing hyperbolic statements, or statements they felt were untrue. Maybe, maybe not. If the police, or person or company we don't like, edits a Wiki article, it is obviously whitewashing and coverup. However, if some organization or someone recognized to be an Official SoylentNews Hero (being those who we are not allowed to express any comments that are less than stellar), then they are obviously getting the Truth out.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 17 2015, @12:14AM
Please. There's no reason to give the government the benefit of the doubt. They conduct mass surveillance on the population and blatantly lie about it, steal people's property and call it "asset forfeiture", randomly violate people's rights for no reason and call it "stop-and-frisk", molest people at airports, get us into unjust wars (and lie about WMDs, which wouldn't be a valid reason to attack a sovereign country anyway) every two seconds, start wars on people who put certain drugs into their bodies, engage in all sorts of censorship (draconian copyright laws, free speech zones, FCC censorship, etc.), as well as numerous other horrendous things.
If you are smart, you will not give the government the benefit of the doubt; it's dangerous and they do not deserve it. People in power are interested in protecting their own power, and also want to increase it further.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 17 2015, @04:27AM
This guy's got it. If we weren't living in a police state there might be reason to give them the benefit of a doubt, but they've been shitting all over our civil liberties and betraying our trust for at least a decade or 4. They tell us "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide" and then take actions like this to hide their own actions and rewrite history. The time of giving them a pass is long over.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 17 2015, @03:24PM
Look for yourself at this "sanitation" that is going on (there are links in a post somewhere below). It is a tabloid-worthy headline. The worst part is that sheeple like you (yes, I did indeed use that derisive term that people like you love to apply to the common person, and it is very fitting because you are just only hearing what you want to hear) will take away from this that the cops are whitewashing information. A month or so from now you'll add this "evidence" to your laundry list rant as further evidence that "the government" is evil, completely independent as to whether the facts support your claim because facts don't matter to you. And I'm supposed to read your list of 99 grievances and take them at face value now that I've seen the level of critical thinking that goes into your "facts"?
Get bent.