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Arms Company EDO Corporation Caught Censoring Wikipedia Article

According the new Wikiscanner web page a computer registered as belonging to arms company EDO Corporation was used to remove sensitive information from the Wikipedia 'EDO Corporation' webpage critical of its warmongering and illegal activities in July 2006

The computer based in Huntingdon Valley,Pensylvania, at an EDO Corp subsidiary EDO Mtech was used six times to remove information critical of the company. The edits can be found at

http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?ip2=67.130.4.88-103.

According to Wikipedia rules companies and their employees are not supposed to edit entries about their own business.

Most of the information critical of EDO Corp is now on a seperate page entitled 'Criticism of EDO Corporation'

The news comes on the eve of the start of the third anti-war protest action camp to be set up in a park close to EDO MBM Technology Ltd, Home farm Road, Brighton, The UK subsidiary of EDO Corp.

Shameless leap onto a passing media bandwagon
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Bad bandwagon to jump onto

26.08.2007 20:01

Someone just defended the right of the CIA to propagandise on wikipedia as their 'freedom of speech'

"wikipedia and the first amendment - now to be re-amended to say 'anyone can edit wikipedia unless danny disapproves of them'."

So the fact we disapprove of EDO telling lies on wikipedia is rather contentious on IM. I disapprove of EDO so they must be okay ?

“ Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ”

A platitude that IM-UK is so far incapable of living up to.

Danny
Homepage: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/379676.html?c=all

no taste

27.08.2007 19:54

wha'ts even worse is their taste in music:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=131635127

whois 63.148.72.226

EDO Corporation Q0411-63-148-72-224 (NET-63-148-72-224-1)
63.148.72.224 - 63.148.72.255

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