Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Labour councillor misuse of the Web

Before local Labour activists complain too loudly about their opponents making use of World Wide Web pages to attack them, they should consider the activities of David Boothroyd, a Labour councillor in London, who has been using various aliases in a deception aimed at Wikipedia among others. He has now been found out and action taken by Wikipedia. Mark Pack has the story and links.

1 comment:

Gregory Kohs said...

While Wikipedia has done its best to censor the coverage of this notable figure, David Boothroyd, because he is after all "one of their own", the content of the Wikipedia article about him was released under the terms of the GFDL. So, it can be republished under those same terms elsewhere, and in fact, has:

http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:David_Boothroyd