Sci/Tech FBI to Wikipedia: "Remove our seal."

[tom_mai78101]

(CNN) -- The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has threatened Wikipedia with legal action if the online encyclopedia doesn't remove the FBI's seal from its site.

The seal is featured in an encyclopedia entry about the FBI.

Wikipedia isn't backing down, however. The online encyclopedia -- which is run by a nonprofit group and is edited by the public -- sent a chiding letter to the FBI, explaining why, in its view, the FBI is off its legal rocker.

"In short, then, we are compelled as a matter of law and principle to deny your demand for removal of the FBI Seal from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons," the Wikimedia Foundation's general counsel, Mike Godwin, wrote in a letter to the FBI, which was posted online by the New York Times.

Source - CNN Tech News.

 

[Prometheus]

Wikileaks is bad. Thus, anything "wiki" is bad too!

 

[undeadorcjerk]

This is ridiculous. We, as Americans, pay for and provide for the FBI to provide us with the security we need in this country... and for secret agents.

This is not something that the FBI should be even looking at. A picture? Come on. That's it. That's all it is.

 

[Samael88]

If the FBI where to remove that seal from every place they found except where they use it then the result would be that no one would know how it looks except for themselves and what good is a seal that no one can recognize?:nuts:

 

[FireCat]

What the hell, "Our tax dollars at work"

 

[seph ir oth]

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=FBI seal&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=947

^ See what I did thar? BETTER REMOVE IT FROM GOOGLE TOO!

 

[Slapshot136]

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q=FBI seal&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=947

^ See what I did thar? BETTER REMOVE IT FROM GOOGLE TOO!

all we have to do is copy china

 

[Dan]

This is why America is so cool. We are allowed to challenge things like this in court. yay us! Wikipedia will win and the FBI looks silly for even caring in the first place. Power to the people.

 

[Vaius]

This is why America is so cool. We are allowed to challenge things like this in court. yay us! Wikipedia will win and the FBI looks silly for even caring in the first place. Power to the people.

Unfortunately, this also comes with abuse. Even the government abuses this [See: Federal lawsuit against Arizona for enforcing Immigration laws].

 

[esb]

Unfortunately, this also comes with abuse. Even the government abuses this [See: Federal lawsuit against Arizona for enforcing Immigration laws].

That's not a fight/debate over a silly seal no one cares about.