There is nothing to investigate, Wikipedia is a private organization and if it has a bias it is none of the government's business.
The party of "small government?" "Don't tread on me?" What the hell happened, Republicans?
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"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Conservatives only care about small government when they are the ones being oppressed by the federal government. Like when Congress passed laws banning slavery.
But they care about federal laws being forced onto states when they are the ones doing the oppressing. Like when they passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
They don't care about their hypocrisy and, if anything, makes them want to do it more.
You forgot the scare quotes around "oppressed."
They don’t care about their hypocrisy and, if anything, makes them want to do it more.
Hypocrisy is a feature because it serves as a demonstration of their power and impunity. The message is "of course we're being blatantly hypocritical; what are you gonna do about it, peasant?"
In Hungary we have a saying: "The problem isn't what he did, but that he was busted doing it." since the Gábor Kaleta and József Szájer cases, and the Hungarian PragerU clone Axióma kind of implied this, essentially saying "leftist hypocrisy proves that the left's views are unfeasible, rightist hypocrisy proves that people on the right are humans first and foremost".
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Every time I see a Don't tread on me flag, 50/50 it's also flown side by side with a thin blue line flag. Makes me cringe
They only ever cared about white supremacy. All that other stuff was bullshit.
That’s only when it’s private companies they like.
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What the hell does the house oversight comitee have to do with a private endeavor?
Even if there was such bias, doesn't the 1st amendment cover it, as it does Fox, for example?
- Nothing
- They just needed an excuse. You believing it isn't a concern.
forgot about Epstein yet?
Is there something illegal about that? If Wikipedia has organizational bias, it’s covered by their first amendment right.
You have "The right to free speech (as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it)".
The Clash
A right that's getting rapidly eroded. Like, 1A is a right that's pretty much reduced to only existing on paper at this point and some politicians are probably looking for a way to erase it from the Constitution entirely.
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I'd say when open source seems organized against you, you might be the problem.
Reality has a non-frothing-at-the-mouth-oblivious-cult-member bias to it
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The biases:
- Calls Israel's genocide a genocide.
- Does not state, that the "judeo-christian" god is real, and that the creation myth is real. Does not state that evolution is a "discredited theory", using arguments from the Discovery Institute as citations.
- States that trans people exists, citations point to actual studies, articles don't automatically redirect to an article about "narcissistic personality disorder", currently existing article on NPD does not list "gender confusion" as a potential sympthom, and no links to websites of christian "psychologists" (read: theologists with a doctorate) offering "therapy" (read: exorcism, forced prayer, forced conversion to fundamentalist christianity.
- Does not call liberalism a "childish psychosis".
- Lists actual COVID death numbers, does not call mRNA vaccines "modified RNA", does not reserve autism spectrum disorder only for boys that are extremely low functioning.
don’t forget climate change
1st amendment mf. Wikipedia can have an article convincing people 2+2=5 if they want and it is protected speech you fascist assholes.
Yes, truth and reality have a bias against fascism.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you. Investigate Truth Social, Twitter, the Smithsonian, the FBI, the DOJ, the President, Congress, the DoD, the DoE, the NSA, and the Supreme Court, if you are worried about bias.
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Good thing I downloaded it then because it's probably going to be blocked in the US next.
If the US tries to kill Wikipedia I'm actually forming a militia
Like... You should probably get to work organizing then because they're already doing it.
They can try... Wikipedia has been bolstering themselves against this exact kind of attack for many years. They've made the entirety of the site completely downloadable for literally anyone to make and keep a copy and lots of people do (though the more the better).
The Wikimedia corporation that runs the actual site may have to ensure that it's incorporated in a different country though.
I have an offline copy with no pictures from like February.
But if Wikipedia is ever shut down then there goes the best resource for recording human society and history
If they cant manage to shut down TPB 🏴☠️, they sure as shit sint gonna be able to shut down Wikipedia.
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aaaand just donated another $100 to Wikipedia.
So the truth is organized bias?!?
They're scared of self-governing NGOs and free fonts of knowledge.
In other words, they're not publishing the propaganda of the new fascist US government?
Scientific proof that we are in the dumbest timeline.
So what if it was?
to be fair their thing is whining about shit for a day then moving on to different shit to whine about
On July 4, 2026, nothing happened on Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, USA.
(And if something happened, its because they were viOlEnT riOToRs and we had to send in the tanks to restore LaW aNd oRdEr!!!)
Organized bias is illegal? Of course in this context its simply the truth.
If you don’t have a [Kiwix Server] spun up, do it today!(https://kiwix.org/en/)
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"Anything that says Hitler was bad, slavery was bad, and that Donald Trump isn't literally God is biased and must be changed!"
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It begins.
It began 10 years ago. This is just the latest.
You are in boiling water, frog
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Selfhosters, that is your cue if you haven't already made at least a local mirror
Oh look, it's HUAC II!
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