TT: Wikipedia Whitewashers

August 15, 2007

When associates of Diebold, Walmart, Monsanto, the Mormons, the Church of Scientology  and the Republican Party see something embarrassing on their Wikipedia page, they don’t worry much about the truth content of the information, or about Wikipedia’s Neutral Point of View policy, they just remove the irksome entry and often put text more favorable to them in its place.

Time to add another to the list of whitewashers.  Can you guess who?

All links and most in-text references to sources critical of TT beliefs  and practices were removed from the Twelve Tribes Wikipedia page back in May (I restored the link to this page).  The nice thing about Wikipedia is that history of all edits are preserved.  Here are some egregious edits made by someone identified only by their IP address (70.181.222.24) which traces to the Cox broadband service in Atlanta.  Here are others which add text that only a TTer or a true apologist for them could write.  “Davidderush,” the well known TT internet pit bull logged in and made other edits.

An ex-TTer friend of IOTTC learning of this commented: “What happened to ‘Count it all joy when others speak ill of you….?’”

Funny how those most dependent upon the free speech protections embedded in our laws rush to censor other points of view when given the chance.

UPDATE 9/5/07:  Well, they’ve been caught red handed again.

First the good news: since I wrote this article, many of the original external links to the Twelve Tribes Wikipedia article have been restored.  Among these was the link to the “Twelvetribesteachings”