Look what somebody did to the chairman of the FCC's wikipedia page! Ha ha Burnt! (nsfw)

[KelleyKramer]

I'll just leave this right here .................

Link to tweet

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[Angry Dragon]

1. KICK

[Rene]

12. The timing of this action is suspicious......are there plans afoot to censor us; prevent communicati

to discuss topics;organize protests; ordinary folks to stay informed about politics and comment etc.
Why was it important to attack net neutrality at this specific time?.

Hey...I got chastised by FB the other day for commenting 'idiot' to someone making stupid remarks.

[mahina]

16. Im impressed. Facebook, the company, chastised you?

It’s no easy thing to get communication from them. How did you do it?

[Historic NY]

43. Doesn't sound Russian.

[Stargazer99]

31. You are thinking! Control of information so they can manipulate the general public

[Kittycow]

3. An accurate description in my book.

[lkinwi]

4. Accurate description

[Achilleaze]

5. Another republican pissing on the American people

disgusting

[certainot]

6. and all the other republicans yell "i love the trickle down!"

[onit2day]

29. Completely lacking integrity or empathy his life will defintely now turn

as his world gets very small. Despicable and deplorable actions. 85% of Americans want net neutrality and he says screw 'em? He and his two member buddies don't care what Americans want.

[SergeStorms]

42. On the contrary....

his complete lack of integrity and empathy will vault him into the inner circle of "Power Republicans". Inside that circle are the likes of the Kochs (pronounced COCKS), Mercers, Adelsons, Childs, Simmons etc. and Ajit will be an accepted 'trial member' of that group, until they find out he's not anywhere near their wealth class. Then there's that obvious problem of him being of the 'dusky' persuasion. He will make a lot of important contacts during his brief stay though.

But he'll finally settle into that pool of Republican scum that can be counted on to do the most mundane tasks for the Power Republicans with all the zeal, ruthlessness, and impropriety expected of common Republican scum. There's definitely a future in Republican politics open to him now.

[lpbk2713]

7. Seems OK to me.

[mantis49]

8. That's very good,

but I really wish people would learn the difference between who's and whose. (sigh) Ruins the effect when I see things like that.

[Glorfindel]

14. Me, too.

That's fourth-grade stuff, if I remember correctly. Maybe third-grade.

[gratuitous]

22. And how to spell invertebrate

The "spineless" adjective is redundant as well. Makes me think this was done by someone who is ordinarily on the other side of the political divide from us.

[mantis49]

24. Hah!

I didn't even notice the caption above the picture because I was reading the text.

And you're right, makes me wonder, too.

[annabanana]

9. 'bout right. . . . . . .n/t

[gristy]

10. The page is now repaired.

As well it should be. Wikipedia is a tremendous resource and works hard to prevent or repair pranks like this.

[pintobean]

17. It's amazing that so many DUers are celebrating the vandalism

of a website a year after we were shut down due to vandalism.

[liberalhistorian]

20. Speaking the brutal truth

is not vandalism.

[pintobean]

21. I'd imagine the vandal(s) of DU

thought the same thing.

[FailureToCommunicate]

41. Not similar. Updating Wikipedia pages is quite common. They didn't shut anything down.

Just corrected it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. Former Tech Support guy at AOL?

Heeelo, how con I heeelp yu todeee?

[dalton99a]

13. An accurate description.

[Glorfindel]

15. K&R n/t

[Mrs. Ted Nancy]

18. Invertebrate is misspelled. nt

[RandomAccess]

19. This alone is worth a donation, eh?

[niyad]

23. love it!! just wish the "editor" knew the difference between whose and who's.

[toddwv]

25. *whose dick

[Roland99]

26. Bad spelling and grammar. Ugh. Do it right.

[democratisphere]

27. Perfect description for another member of the drumpf destruction team.

Dismantling our democracy each and everyday he remains in office.

[.99center]

28. Who appointed him as chairman?

And who voted to renew his term on the FCC last year?

This is the doing of the GOP and Trump.
Tether that chicken motherfuckers!

[Stargazer99]

30. He is East Indian not Native American Indian

Native Americans would never allow hurting people like this East Indian did

[Honeycombe8]

32. Would help if they had the spelling correct. And he's not the 1st Am Indian to abuse his office.

Let's not forget Bobby Jindal, another corporate shill, elected Guv of Louisiana. He inherited a budget surplus, worked to cut corporate state taxes by 80% (!), and left the state $1.5 BILLION DOLLARS in debt.

[Jim Lane]

33. All the ways there are to support net neutrality, and some idiot chooses to vandalize Wikipedia?

I am vehemently opposed to such vandalism and I am vehemently opposed to DU threads that promote and celebrate it.

These people (vandals and their cheerleaders) evidently don't understand the immorality of sabotaging a volunteer project that, unlike the corporate media, makes knowledge available for free to everyone, with no subscription fees and no advertising.

If such considerations of principle don't move you, I'll descend to the level of pragmatism: Do you believe that adolescent stunts like this promote the cause? You know the silly edit won't last long. All you do is make work for a volunteer editor who has to fix it. While it's up, it certainly doesn't persuade anyone who didn't already agree. In fact, anyone who sees it will conclude, justifiably, that some supporters of net neutrality are complete bozos. As a matter of logic, that shouldn't be taken as bearing on the merits of the issue -- but as a matter of human psychology, it tends to discredit all of us who oppose the FCC action.

Please, go get your lulz someplace else.

[Liberalagogo]

34. CAREFUL!!!!

That horse you're on is pretty high!!!

[Jim Lane]

36. Sometimes a "high horse" attitude is justified.

I can easily see an Alabama Republican making a comment similar to yours about people who criticized Roy Moore. Moore's critics have the right of it nevertheless. So do those of us who criticize Wikipedia vandals.

I know some people will write me off as a humorless old curmudgeon. Watch me not care.

[Jim Lane]

38. Although you presumably will not see this....

I take the opportunity to note that you make not the slightest effort to address the specific points I raised about Wikipedia. Slinging personal insults requires soooo much less thought, doesn't it?

Given your bad reaction to logic, your decision to put me on Ignore is a sound one.

[azureblue]

39. ah, but

you assume incorrectly that Repubs play by reasonable and logical rules. they don't. They know they can say all sort of crap, smears, lies, snide remarks, and our "civility" will prevent us from responding in a way that grabs teh attention away from them The time for fighting fire with fire is here. The GOP have mowed us down when we tried to be civil, reasonable logical and compromising. Like this clod, they think those are weaknesses to be exploited.

And I, for damn sure, am not going to let the GOP take away the internet from us, because I was restrained and reasonable.

[Jim Lane]

40. I assume nothing of the kind.

There are plenty of adolescents of the left and right who vandalize Wikipedia. In 2004, for example, I was doing a lot of patrolling of the nominees' bios:
* George W. Bush as the son of former President George H. W. Bush was changed to say he was the son of Satan.
* "John Forbes Kerry" was changed to "Jean Francois Kerry".

Probably a lot of people think such hijinks are hilarious -- or, at least, they think that one of these edits is hilarious and incisive satire, while the other is just vandalism. The people in this category would of course disagree as to which is which.

I don't see how the existence of short-lived stupid right-wing edits necessitates or justifies short-lived stupid left-wing edits.

To return to the pragmatic point in my post: Do you think that the refusal to be "restrained and reasonable," when such refusal takes the form of vandalizing Wikipedia, actually helps defend net neutrality? I realize it makes the vandals (and some of their allies) feel better, but is the real-world impact helpful, or harmful?

[jpak]

35. BWAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!1111

[yuiyoshida]

44. tweeted AND K&R

n/t