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Yes, truth and reality have a bias against fascism.
1st amendment mf. Wikipedia can have an article convincing people 2+2=5 if they want and it is protected speech you fascist assholes.
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.
I'll join
the wilitia
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
aaaand just donated another $100 to Wikipedia.
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?
So what if it was?
So the truth is organized bias?!?
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/)
This is a very neat thing, thanks for sharing!
Selfhosters, that is your cue if you haven't already made at least a local mirror
Oh look, it's HUAC II!
"organized bias" lmfao. Did you you mean jewish lobbies getting people fired and Israeli state flooding google ads with war propaganda?
Can't it just relocate to say... Switzerland
Looks like it's back to Encarta for me, looking forward to Mind Maze
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?
forgot about Epstein yet?
- Nothing
- They just needed an excuse. You believing it isn't a concern.
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?
They only ever cared about white supremacy. All that other stuff was bullshit.
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
"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".
Sorry, but that's all permanent political -isms. To find -isms which are not centered around that proposition, you have to leave politics and look for various ephemeral ideas, which only become popular in response to disturbances.
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Is there something illegal about that? If Wikipedia has organizational bias, it’s covered by their first amendment right.
rights for thee not for me
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I'd say when open source seems organized against you, you might be the problem.
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Good thing I downloaded it then because it's probably going to be blocked in the US next.
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