Yesterday, I read a Los Angeles Times piece on Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, which depends on the fact-checking ability of thousands of participants. Error and bias may be inevitable, but they are also quickly corectable, thanks to the cleverly-designed Wikipedia interface.
There are people who want to deface or even destroy Wikipedia. The right-wing blogger Ace of Spades — out of mischief and because he heard Wikipedia's operators were liberals — recently called on its readers to "punk" the site: to put up as much misinformation and nonsense as possible. Other blogs gleefully expose errors, even if those defects persist only for a few minutes.Exposing errors is, of course, quite legitimate. But deliberately polluting the information stream...?
This is war. A war on reality itself.
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An important point, Joseph. The Bushites have declared war on science, on the
academics, on the news media, on europe--on any challenge to their assertions.
Last year I briefly adopted a tagline for my posts: "The reality wars are coming." It didn't catch on then. But I think it will before too long.
Your right its virtually become a "war on reality"
they are "soldiers in the war on truth"
You are right its now really become the War on Reality" from their side.
they are: "Soldiers in the WAR on Truth"
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