An anonymous user tried unsuccessfully to remove a reference to “torture” from a Wikipedia article on the Senate’s report on the CIA’s clandestine interrogation program from an IP address registered to the chamber.
The Twitter account @congressedits, which has been automatically tweeting edits to Wikipedia pages made from IP addresses in Congress since last summer, caught two attempts on Tuesday and Wednesday:
Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate http://t.co/Bj4q8Naed1
— congress-edits (@congressedits) December 9, 2014
Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate http://t.co/gCbKRlBvdw
— congress-edits (@congressedits) December 10, 2014
The user tried to remove a line describing so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” as a “euphemism for torture.”
Mashable pointed out that in both instances, the anonymous editor explained that the revision was intended to remove bias from the article. Both attempts to edit the article were blocked.
Busteddddddd…
Teatroll Rosetta Stone says: “Torture isn’t torture anymore because we redefined it, so it’s biased to call it torture.”
Fucking conservatives truly do believe they can just rewrite reality when it disagrees with them.
When Teabaggers are not trying to define problems out of existence, they are trying to get rid of any reference to them.
Typical.
The entry for “Powerpoint Presentation” should also be referenced as torture. Microsoft removed it.
And these are the folks who will be running both houses of congress starting in January.