As the old saying goes, there is no distinctly criminal class in the United States, except for the Congress.
BBC reports that the US Congress IP address space has been banned from making edits on Wikipedia for repeated acts of intellectual dishonesty and digital vandalism. Perhaps they should be arrested under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and sentenced to decades in prison. Excerpt:
Wikipedia administrators
have imposed a ban on page edits from computers at the US House of
Representatives, following "persistent disruptive editing".
The 10-day block comes after anonymous changes were made to
entries on politicians and businesses, as well as events like the
Kennedy assassination . . .
Edits from computers using the IP address belonging to the
House of Representatives have been banned before, following similar acts
of vandalism . . . Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, told the BBC that the incident
did not surprise him, and vandalism has "always gone on and it always
will".
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