http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/04/26/wikipedia-and-politics-part-74/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/04/26/wikipedia-and-politics-part-74/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Info/Law » Wikipedia and politics, part 74 1/2 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:57:36 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/04/26/wikipedia-and-politics-part-74/#comment-2 [...] Yesterday I speculated that a controversy around the use of Wikipedia in a Georgia political campaign was really just another example of people misunderstanding Wikipedia and unfairly holding it to different standards than other media.  Today, given recent developments, I am not so sure. Secretary of State Cathy Cox has fired her campaign manager, Morton Brilliant (great name, eh?), who apparently edited her opponent’s Wikipedia entry to add mention of a drunk-driving incident involving the opponent’s son.  (Well, she “accepted his resignation,” which in this case translates to “fired”).  As CNN.com reports, both Cox and her opponent’s campaign cast the firing in terms of the drunk-driving issue being inappropriate and not, as I had feared, the use of Wikipedia: Taylor spokesman Rick Dent said earlier Wednesday that the Cox campaign was “exploiting a tragedy for political reasons.” He also asked for an apology from Cox and for Brilliant to be fired. [...] [...] Yesterday I speculated that a controversy around the use of Wikipedia in a Georgia political campaign was really just another example of people misunderstanding Wikipedia and unfairly holding it to different standards than other media.  Today, given recent developments, I am not so sure. Secretary of State Cathy Cox has fired her campaign manager, Morton Brilliant (great name, eh?), who apparently edited her opponent’s Wikipedia entry to add mention of a drunk-driving incident involving the opponent’s son.  (Well, she “accepted his resignation,” which in this case translates to “fired”).  As CNN.com reports, both Cox and her opponent’s campaign cast the firing in terms of the drunk-driving issue being inappropriate and not, as I had feared, the use of Wikipedia: Taylor spokesman Rick Dent said earlier Wednesday that the Cox campaign was “exploiting a tragedy for political reasons.” He also asked for an apology from Cox and for Brilliant to be fired. [...]

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