this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2022
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[–] graphito@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The description missed: desperate attempt of OP to paint Wikipedia (the open source successful project which democratized public knowledge) same colours as Facebook and Twitter.

I wonder if there's some kinda agenda behind it

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

Whenever I see these coy political memes I'm grateful that I'm not on the side where our extremists are the mainstream. The political theory is great, guys. In theory. Don't make it your personality.

[–] skomposzczet@vlemmy.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is wikipedia part of it?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wikipedia is incredibly biased when it comes to political topics and it's regularly curated by US government and corporations https://www.vice.com/en/article/nnk97k/the-internet-is-flooded-with-wikipedia-edits-made-by-government-and-big-oil

[–] The_Infinite_Monkey@lemdit.com 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That (near decade-old) article really only describes conservative interests affecting the bias of the Wikipedia articles. Many editing incidents have happened since then, and they’re almost entirely attributable to conservatives bias, as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_editing_incidents_on_Wikipedia

Of course, it’s the same with all of these other websites, but conservatives are the ones insisting that the entire internet is pitted against them by the powers that be when that couldn’t be further from the truth.

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Censorship in the West: we don't want that on our platform, person goes and finds a different platform.

Censorship under authoritarian governments: Criticize government? Straight to jail. Uncover wrongdoing by party official? Jail. Political opposition becoming more than controlled opposition? Believe it or not, jail.

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