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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

I bet that if it was the US asking Wikipedia to edit articles the media wouldn't use the word "demand" or attribute it to the whole US. A likely headline would be: "email shows US official asked Wikipedia to censor 'misinformation'".

[-] mekhos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Close, from the article-

The Russian media censorship agency Roskomnadzor demanded the volunteer-run online encyclopedia take down any information on the invasion that is “misinforming” Russians, according to a statement.

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Wikipedia is not volunteer run... They're using language to make it seem like it's a little website with a dream being bullied by the mean Russians. Wikipedia is run by its administrators, who do not let anyone else encroach on their power. 3 editors are responsible for most edits (I want to say 90%). Famously there is one editor that edits from 6 am to 10pm every day without fail (mostly pro war edits) , and the most prolific editor worked as a TSA and ICE agent terrorizing migrants.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

There are thousands of Wikipedia administrators, and they're voted in by the community. The people who actually run Wikipedia are Bureaucrats.

The 3 editors your referring to are bot accounts that do things like archive pages and format things consistently.

Please learn more before spouting blatant lies, thanks :)

  • A Wikipedia editor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators

[-] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lmao okay defend the Ayn Rand libertarian website if you want, what do you want me to tell you?

https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia

Are you white and male by chance?

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

You can't just drop links and racism and pretend that's an argument. Your post talked about administrators, I explained why that's wrong. That goal post stays where it is.

[-] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Errr parent comment was troubling, but your claiming that calling out whiteness is "racism" is even more troubling. I don't know a single place on earth where anti-white racism is a thing, despite fascists claiming that. To be clear, some anti-white resentment does exist in white-supremacist regions, but resentment is not racism or rather is a small subset of racism and not the actual problem that we more precisely call "structural racism". (see also the wikipedia pages on those topics :))

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

resentment is not racism

I left Ruqqus for the stupid racism there, didn't expect to find it on Lemmy

That aside, I agree with most of what you said. My post was just to call out CriticalResist for running behind text walls after posting patently false info

[-] southerntofu@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Yea i agree the original comment was inappropriate, but please be careful when using such a loaded word as "racism" just because someone spelled "white" or "black" :P

I also strongly recommend you read the wikipedia page on reverse racism, aka anti-white racism. Have a good day!

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