A Warning for People Who Write Online

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Have you ever written an article for an online journal like Slate or Findlaw's Writ or National Review? If you have, then I advise you to take a look at your article every now and then to make sure it hasn't morphed into something else. Maybe that might not happen at Slate or National Review, but I just discovered it happened to me at Findlaw's Writ.

In 2002, I wrote a Writ article titled, Abortion and Free Speech. Unfortunately, it looks like the article has been tampered with, and a critical paragraph has been completely deleted. You can view the missing paragraph in the archived versions from August 2, 2002 thru August 28, 2005 at archive.org. I am in the process of contacting people at Writ to get this cleared up.

These are the same people who publish all of the Supreme Court opinions on the internet. This is extremely disturbing.

UPDATE [1:00 AM, Jan. 24]: Wow, that was fast. The Findlaw people have kindly corrected the article. Apparently, when Findlaw added advertising, the ads corrupted the online versions, but authors were not informed.

Here's a screenshot of a portion of the Writ article as I found it earlier today:

And, here's a screenshot from the article as I wrote it and as it existed online for more than three years:

You can see that there is one more paragraph in the latter screenshot.

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