Wikipedia Russia suspends editor who tried to cut deal with Russian authorities
by Cory Doctorow from on (#WCDE)
A Wikipedia editors has been suspended after he organized a meeting with the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (as well as Rospotrebnadzor, a consumer rights watchdog, and Roskomnadzor, a media watchdog) to set terms under which "the expert opinion of authorized government bodies" would be inserted into Wikipedia entires on "socially sensitive" topics. (more")