Submitted 14 hours 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.
That was always an obvious lie.
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?
If the US tries to kill Wikipedia I’m actually forming a militia
I’ll join
Yes, truth and reality have a bias against fascism.
So what if it was?
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.
rights for thee not for me
Oh, boy, you must be new here.
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.
aaaand just donated another $100 to Wikipedia.
In other words, they’re not publishing the propaganda of the new fascist US government?
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
Good thing I downloaded it then because it’s probably going to be blocked in the US next.
How do you download Wikipedia?
Easiest way is via Kiwix.
Kiwix is probably the easiest way.
kiwix makes it easy ☞ apt.izzysoft.de/…/org.kiwix.kiwixmobile.standalon…
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!(kiwix.org/en/)
This is a very neat thing, thanks for shargin!
Scientific proof that we are in the dumbest timeline.
Oh look, it’s HUAC II!
to be fair their thing is whining about shit for a day then moving on to different shit to whine about
“organized bias” lmfao. Did you you mean jewish lobbies getting people fired and Israeli state flooding google ads with war propaganda?
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!!!)
Selfhosters, that is your cue if you haven’t already made at least a local mirror
“Anything that says Hitler was bad, slavery was bad, and that Donald Trump isn’t literally God is biased and must be changed!”
changed to needs to be 187’d
It begins.
It began in 1983, somewhere around TCP/IP becoming a thing.
400 years ago at least…
Looks like it’s back to Encarta for me, looking forward to Mind Maze
Can’t it just relocate to say… Switzerland
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
1st amendment mf. Wikipedia can have an article convincing people 2+2=5 if they want and it is protected speech you fascist assholes.