Submitted 2 weeks ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36435178
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?
“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.”
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.
They only ever cared about white supremacy. All that other stuff was bullshit.
That’s o my when it’s private companies they like.
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
That was always an obvious lie.
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.
Or replace it with the conservative version, which states: white men have the right to call black people the hard-R N-word, without consequences, including getting called racist, losing friends, losing employment opportunities.
Oh, boy, you must be new here.
rights for thee not for me
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
But that really is a bias too. Everything has a bias relative to most existing points of view. That’s why the “free speech” thing was invented, because when your world is larger than one isolated village or even one isolated, even if moving, royal court, then you can’t make everyone think the same subjectively correct way. Free speech was a way for nations to survive modernization. There are more dimensions to the world than any single person understands enough to not be what you said. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is an idiot in something and would want to shut everyone up in that dimension.
Not only it’s a right first and foremost of those you disagree with, though, but it also can’t ever be based on good will. It can only be based on inability to break by force. Like any other institution.
I think many bad things in our reality are due to reliance on good will having been covertly put into many key places of the mechanisms.
Good thing I downloaded it then because it’s probably going to be blocked in the US next.
How do you download Wikipedia?
kiwix makes it easy ☞ apt.izzysoft.de/…/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.standalon…
Easiest way is via Kiwix.
Kiwix is probably the easiest way.
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.
might as well say hunt down and take out
Yes, truth and reality have a bias against fascism.
Scientific proof that we are in the dumbest timeline.
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 endure 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
I’ll join
the wilitia
1st amendment mf. Wikipedia can have an article convincing people 2+2=5 if they want and it is protected speech you fascist assholes.
aaaand just donated another $100 to Wikipedia.
In other words, they’re not publishing the propaganda of the new fascist US government?
The biases:
don’t forget climate change
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!!!)
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
It begins.
It began in 1983, somewhere around TCP/IP becoming a thing.
400 years ago at least…
“Anything that says Hitler was bad, slavery was bad, and that Donald Trump isn’t literally God is biased and must be changed!”
If you don’t have a [Kiwix Server] spun up, do it today!(kiwix.org/en/)
This is a very neat thing, thanks for shargin!
Organized bias is illegal? Of course in this context its simply the truth.
“organized bias” lmfao. Did you you mean jewish lobbies getting people fired and Israeli state flooding google ads with war propaganda?
Selfhosters, that is your cue if you haven’t already made at least a local mirror
So the truth is organized bias?!?
Oh look, it’s HUAC II!
Can’t it just relocate to say… Switzerland
Looks like it’s back to Encarta for me, looking forward to Mind Maze
elucubra@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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?
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
forgot about Epstein yet?