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Boring Rocks for Nerds's avatar

I signed up for a monthly recurring donation to Wikipedia after reading this. Wikipedia is the only good part of the internet that has survived

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Gordon Reynolds's avatar

Why didn’t I think of that? I’m on it.

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Gordon Reynolds's avatar

Done.

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Lidija P Nagulov's avatar

Same.

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Prince Kudu’Ra's avatar

They opened and read it… it said [the government] were suckers. Wikipedia is worth donating to.

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Jaxon Lee's avatar

Goddamn it! You beat me to this reply!!!!

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Prince Kudu’Ra's avatar

To keep it really real, Public Enemy was guilty of a sort of middle-class moralism here, because revolutionaries should go wherever the working class goes. Black American leaders had been explaining the absurdity of blacks defending American imperialism for decades, from Frederick Douglass to most recently then Muhammad Ali, but words weren't cutting it, were they? Vietnam ended because working-class soldiers started organizing among themselves, across racial lines, and decided to grenade their officers rather than follow orders to search and destroy their peasant brothers and sisters.

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Nicholas Kircher's avatar

My god what a fantastic bit of insight into what's happening over at Wikipedia. You're right, it is most certainly a coordinated effort by the hard-right-wing in the US to chill free speech and accurate information. Utterly brazen, too, just like everything else they've been doing. Perhaps the Wikimedia organisation should move to a real free country, like Australia?

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The Wikipedian's avatar

There have certainly been some discussions about whether WMF should relocate to a country not currently controlled by a political party in the grips of a personality cult. However, things would have to get a lot worse before that becomes a real possibility.

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Debbie Liu's avatar

We're really free? # scratches head. 🧐 Well, at least its compulsory to vote in elections over here, and elections are held on a Saturday, when most people are able to vote.

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Nicholas Kircher's avatar

We're more free than the Yanks that's for sure, and we get democracy sausage to boot.

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Debbie Liu's avatar

Cant argue with that. Though the democracy sausages are dwindling. Many polling booths dont have them now. (at least in Qld) I asked why, and was told "insurance problems".

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Nicholas Kircher's avatar

What!! That’s bloody un-australian! Can’t have an election without a democracy sausage, and I would have thought Qld would be all over it! D:

This is an outrage, we should boycott whoever their insurance people are 😂

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Debbie Liu's avatar

I know right? I mean half the reason you go to vote is for the democracy sausage!

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Paul's avatar

It's because everyone is now voting early.

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Lidija P Nagulov's avatar

‘Trust & Safety Oversight: Regarding Trust & Safety, what does the Foundation provide in terms of employees and contractors, budget, day-to-day oversight, and enforcement mechanisms, for the purposes of content moderation and addressing editor misconduct (including but not limited to content manipulation, bullying, and off-platform canvassing)?’

Wouldn’t we like this question answered by some other entities? Like Twitter, Facebook, or the White House website?

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WinstonSmithLondonOceania's avatar

Or Martin himself, who seems hellbent on bullying Wikipedia into manipulating content the way the Orange Scourge likes.

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Richard Careaga's avatar

He’s not really upset that Wiki has to deal with to insert propaganda. He is just upset that he doesn’t control who is permitted to insert it.

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Geoff Foley's avatar

The timeframe of the data he requested is very telling: anything post-January 6th.

And, with Martin now out and Pirro in as the “interim” without the requirement of confirmation, the witch-hunt may become even more ludicrous.

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Pavel Života's avatar

Trump and his administration of loyal lackeys are the gravediggers of freedom, democracy, and the law of nature. Trump and his administration of loyal lackeys are the gravediggers of freedom, democracy, the laws of nature, science.

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Vince Roman's avatar

Well said

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TC's avatar

Why can't they just ignore/filibuster this crap like the Trump team does with every single legal demand they have ever gotten from anyone on anything? Seems to work great for them.

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KO in LA's avatar

Reminds me of the stories of MAGA’s on X being enraged at the AI engine Grok’s responses. Nothing infuriates them more than facts.

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Tom C's avatar

***Martin makes clear he’s acting on a tip. But from whom?***

He seems to CLAIM that he is acting on a tip. But is he? Or is he simply registering his unhappiness with the fact that reality has a liberal bias?

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Tess McCarthy's avatar

Wow! Wikipedia is lost without you--so says this librarian & wiki editor here ♥️ so let’s keep you free!

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James Houston's avatar

Why doesn't Ed investigate the President as an unregistered Russian agent?

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Paul Croisiere's avatar

Wikipedia already suffers from a coordinated rightwing project to smear or slander progressive news sites, with no ability of their owners to correct.

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Gabe LLanas's avatar

Funny how churches aren't getting these letters.

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Jean Peters's avatar

They will now. Imagine taxing the Catholic Church for all its revenue and assets.

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Gabe LLanas's avatar

No they won't. As long as they align with the regime.

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Aristotle Evangelos's avatar

Geneva is nice…

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Bananies's avatar

Very well presented piece. I use Wikipedia as a quick reference source. When they send out their emails requesting funds, I usually donate $25. IMO they provide a very useful service. I definitely hope they will stand strong against Martin and the administration.

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