To celebrate the beautiful democracy that is the internet, I have decided to start a little project. Beginning today, I’m going to post one sentence into an article on everyone’s favourite right-wing user-edited wiki-based encyclopedia, affectionately known as Conservapedia. Edits will be made on a semi-regular basis, and I plan for the edits to be just plausible enough that they might slip below the radar. The goal is to see how long it takes for my edits to be removed and how long I can keep it up before being removed as a contributor. I will keep you updated as this highly unscientific experiment continues. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Now, despite my apparent support for censoring certain speech due to my inherent Liberal Bias, in the interest of freedom of expression I will not remove any passages from the encyclopedia.
Edit number one: As of April 27, 2008, 09:30 EDT, the entry for Feminist Style now includes a line that reads, “lack of a healthy fear of the word ‘vagina’.”
UPDATE: Edit removed as of April 27, 2008, 13:00 EDT. These guys are on the ball! Removed by this guy.
UPDATE TWO: Apparently I was also banned from editing for 5 years for that sentence. Now THAT is a healthy fear of the word “vagina.” This occured at 12:59 EDT, meaning I lasted a whopping 3 hours and 29 minutes. A stand-up demonstration of the wiki model.
