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Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Except there are defacto central authorities governing certain pages.

Not only that there’s a turf war going on for control of them.

Certain ahem religious organizations monitor a variety of pages and snipe any changes they disagree with. Businesses are doing it too.

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Forester@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And certain politicians

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Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Which religious orgs?

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- not_a_bot_i_swear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Probably all of them… Just a guess though.
  
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intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I haven’t participated in wikipedia enough to see how these turf wars play out. I’ve heard that, unsurprisingly, there are groups that control pages, some opposed and some unopposed. It’s a really interesting thing to me.

I’m afraid of politics, generally speaking. But I bet it would be interesting to be a part of all that.

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