• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    3 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’”.

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      3 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.

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        3 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.

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          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

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              3 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.

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                3 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 :))

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                  3 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

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                    3 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!