I came here to say 'Fuck Russia's Govt"
and that I feel bad for the Russian people.
this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2022
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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'".
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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 :))
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
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!