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April 9th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Following a ham-fisted attempt to remove information it deemed sensitive from a Wikipedia article, France’s Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intérieur has unwittingly made it one of the most popular French-language pages on the site.
As RT previously reported, the agency became alarmed after
discovering that a French-language WikiPedia entry contained
allegedly classified information regarding a
military radio station out of Pierre-sur-Haute in south-central
France.
Though the Wikimedia Foundation’s subsequent statements likened
the information as “virtually identical” to that divulged by a
report broadcast by Television Loire 7, the Direction Centrale du
Renseignement Intérieur (DCRI) did not agree, as it requested that
Wikipedia delete the offending text.
Wikipedia did not bend to the initial request by the agency.
The Wikimedia Foundation asked the intelligence agency what
precise part(s) of the article were a problem in its view, noting
that the article closely reflected information in a freely
available television broadcast. The DCRI refused to give these
details, and repeated its demand for the deletion of the
article.
Despite resistance on the part of French Wikipedia, the DCRI
decided it would single out a volunteer currently contributing to
the online encyclopedia with enough admin privileges to remove the
material, and summoned him to carry out precisely that. The
Guardian has identified that individual as a curator with the
National Library of France, which suggests the agency looked for a
volunteer on whom they might have some pull.
As other outlets have reported, both the initial request by the
DCRI to remove the offending material – which had been available
for years – was odd enough, but singling out an individual with no
direct association with the entry on the military station suggested
a poor understanding of the amorphous nature of Wikipedia
contribution.
According to publicly available editing records on the article
in question, shortly after it was initially removed by the
individual singled out by the DCRI, another volunteer restored the
page.
“If the government seeks a victim be so kind as to direct
them to me. And tell them that I [don’t give a] fuck,” the
editor wrote on the page’s discussion section.
The DCRI could have likely predicted the ensuing backlash, as
previous attempts to force the removal of information have only
incensed the deeply devoted core of editors that oversee the
sprawling online encyclopedia. Some other high profile cases in the
past have included petitions to remove depictions of the Prophet
Muhammad, and even a lawsuit by the FBI for unauthorized use of its
agency’s seal.
Meanwhile, all of the added attention brought on by the DCRI’s
actions have not only exponentially increased traffic to the
reposted entry, but caused it to be translated into at least a
dozen other languages.
According to Wikiscan, an analytics site that tracks traffic to
individual entries, the reinstated Pierre-sur-Haute military base
page was the most visited on April 6 and 7, 2013, and the
second-most popular page on April 8. Editors have also appended the
following additional text to that entry.
“As a result of the controversy, the article became the
most-read page on French Wikipedia, with over 120,000 page views
during the weekend of 6/7 April 2013. It was translated into
multiple other languages. The French newspaper 20 minutes, Ars
Technica, and a posting on Slashdot, noted it as an example of the
Streisand effect in action. The French ministry of the interior
told the Agence France-Presse that for the moment it did not wish
to comment on the incident.”
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/france-wikipedia-censorship-backfires-534/
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