Think of it this way: Let's say that you are looking for a job. The last time I sent out a resume was in 1998, and it didn't matter that some of my history was semi-notable. I was convicted of a felony (refusing induction) in 1969, and even though it was reversed by a higher court on a technicality ...

Nothing to do with 'right to be forgotten'! I disagree. Both have to do with a citizen's right to challenge an entity's presentation of digital information about themselves that the citizen feels is unfairly damaging to their reputation. In the EU this legal situation is referred to as the " r...

It seems that Australia's High Court is sympathetic with the EU's "right to be forgotten." They ruled that a citizen can sue Google for defamation because Google's search results linked him with content that suggested incorrect associations. Since Wikipedia's BLP content is ranked at the t...

Speaking of Google, a blockbuster of a research book was published this year. It's "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet" by Yasha Levine. 371 pages. The seven chapters EACH average 100 footnotes. While "freedom of expression" may have been what they w...

Both Wikipedia and Google are sufficiently powerful and embedded in today's culture, such that neither is liable for what they publish. For example, why should Wikipedia even dedicate an article to Encyclopedia Dramatica, and why should Google play along by showing "about 42,400 results" f...

Zerohedge reports that Google, which has long used Wikipedia to enhance its search results with a special box at the top of a Google search, got nailed by this practice. The California Republican Party was described as having an ideology that includes, among other things, "Nazism". Google...

Remember that when WO started in 2012, Somey openly offered that his real name is James Somers, he lives in Omaha, and is a retired US government employee. Also that he followed the DC punk-rock scene in the 1980s. Never could verify any of that. If he was a gubbmint employee, his criticism of Russ...

Agreed. Watch your step, Daniel: some weird shit is happening on Wikipediocracy. Tarantino has been behaving more like a Wikipedia admin sockpuppet than a researcher lately. When tarantino and I were doxing ED for over a year, we communicated by email several times a week. But "there was no th...

tarantino and I worked hard to dox Encyclopedia Dramatica hotshots, starting with Sherrod DeGrippo and her friends, and continuing through the Ryan Cleary era. Sherrod gave up on ED, whereupon Ryan grabbed thousands of articles from the Wayback Machine to restart it. Ryan was soon arrested in Britai...

I should hasten to add that it's not me in that picture. Encyclopedia Dramatica couldn't find a picture of me, so they chose a picture of a sexual predator and stuck a tin-foil hat on it. Google comes along and looks for "/wiki/Talk" and "Daniel Brandt" like I requested in their ...