FOX tries to censor wikipedia

Man Marco...I'm impressed with your computer/internet skills.

Your discovery makes my stomach hurt and my spine shiver.

When I was a kid, all the fear filled futuristic novels about tyranny and human oppression focused on the government....think Orwell's "Animal Farm", Huxley's "Brave New World", and the little known, but equally chilling, "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (originally written in the Soviet Union and banned by the Soviet government...sound familiar).  There are many such novels...

But in my opinion, corporations are becoming scarier than the government.

Thats the beauty of wikipedia. Like I said in that other post about the Thermopylae, them's be the greeks, those wikipedians. No one can censor wikipedia. Not even the Church of Scientology, and believe me, they've tried hard. The more they fight it, the worse off they're gonna be. In fact, it may turn counterproductive. We'll see :)

Oh, and Dawn, thank you... I'm blushing that you admire this... but there is really nothing to it, every person has an IP number, and its easy to look them up.. this is why its not quite so anonymous to edit wikipedia without an account... but FOX is the Old Guard.. they wouldnt know about that, until today at least...

And in that respect I agree too with what you say about Corporations becoming Big Brotherish. ... remember when Southpark made an episode on the Church of Scientology? Well, the rumor goes that Tom Cruise (the "Jesus" figure in the Church of Scientology) used his influence to force Viacom to force Comedy Central to drop the episode (both Comedy Central and Paramount are Viacom properties). And dropped it was... for a while. But when people heard about it, the outrage was such that the episode was quickly reinstated. And then we know what happened to Cruise and Paramount after MI3 flopped...... The Old Guard needs to learn new tricks. Its harder and harder to consolidate power, at least the old fashion way. I for one, welcome the new world :)

 ... says his piece. See update above.

Popcorn, anyone? 

Oh, man, you've really got them scrambling! That discovery is almost too good to be true.

I can feel a good conspiracy movie coming on. Ladies and gentlemen, load your cameras...

...sauce, it could be right tasty.  NOT!

Well, Well, they couldn't come up with anything better than the old "disgruntled" filmmaker trick. 

Hmmmmm....

But, seriously Marco I am so glad I'm on your team.(you geek)   They have no idea, what they have done and who they have tried to do it to.

I managed to copy a post of John's during my scavenging over there...I think I'll post it now.

Like a Stallion... 

I was as surprised as you are, Dave!

And I'm with you, Stallion and Jackie!! Completely, you guys make the magic!

And now... there's a little more you can do: 

http://digg.com/television/FOX_embar...

Anyone has an account in digg? Pass the word, we have some hours to get enough votes, then this goes to the front page :)

P.S. Dont make multiple accounts to vote... digg.com detects that kind of thing and they dont like it. Plus, its not in our philosophy anyway :) 

dats scary... I mean... you can actually track people down like dat? 

... much better man than Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett.

"Angry filmmakers who did not make the competition are making false claims as witnessed in some of these entries below. I have tried to delete them. Offical info can be found at (end)

This is the first time that I have heard that I didn't make it. How would I have known? Thank you Jeff baby! (do you feel the drip of sarcasm?)

I digress...

31 years ago my mother and my older sister filed a lawsuit against me, spouting "unfit mother". The judge put a "young punk social" worker in my home to see exactly how I was raising my child. Needless to say my mother and I were at odds. We had many many heated discussions over that period of time. Until one day my "young punk social worker" gave me the "good news" (his words)...

"Now that Mrs. King is dead the case is closed. Your worries are over."

And that my friends is how I learned of my mother's death. Kinda like Jeff King's "Angry filmmakers who did not make the competition..."

Like a Stallion...

marco, is there any way you can get the media to know that FOX is doing this?

 I'd love to, but while I'm okay when it comes to copy pasting IP addresses into IP sniffing tools, when it comes to contacting the media I'm a complete ignoramus. Where do I go? Any idea of where to start? I would like to see this in ET for instance, lol :)

 Updated post above, with yet another attempt to censor wikipedia. I dont blame him for trying though.

Jackie, that sounds like a plan! I've never done it before.... I guess there's only one way to find out, eh? Btw, he really looks silly in wikipedia, I dont know how FOX could turn that around.... 

That was no misspelling. That was a calculated pitch toward the urban gangsta audience. Jeff meant "affiliatin" as in:

"We ain't affiliatin' wit nobody, sucka"

Fox be down wit dem badass mofos! Unlike us.