Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
The slideshow says the group’s “targeting methodologies” would include creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links that can identify people who click on them. It is unclear whether this has begun.
What a bunch of complete dipshits. That being said, there are ways to request yourself to be allowed to use a VPN when editing if these fascist threats intimidate you.
What's that, evidence of intent to commit terrorism?
Pretty sure just saying it is terrorism.
Try saying youll "doxx and target" UHC C suite and see how that goes. Theyll shove you in the same spot as luigi and name a hotline after you
This could be done in literally like 50 minutes.
Can’t have anybody spreading the truth now, can we?
Reality is just a liberal conspiracy!
The entire US conservative establishment is waging a holy crusade against anyone who opposes their Israeli alter ego's Biblical bloodlettings. You'd think they had no problems to handle at home.
Perhaps the 'heritage foundation' needs some of it's own medicine. These people are domestic terrorists who are traitors to their country.
We need another brave group like that furry hacker group that pissed them off so much that they flew off the handle. Except I vote the group that does it doesn't make the same mistake as the last one by contacting them afterwards.
I put on a robe and a wizard red hat. I gotchu wiki
Edit: I also went to donate again. Let's hope this causes a storm for these assholes. Streisand effect kinda thing, wiki is probably humanity's single greatest altruistic/collective achievement.
Fedi-pedia when? (Fediverse Wikipedia)
How would that function?
A portal site which lists search results. Each result contains a list of definitions/entries - each from different instances. Editors from different instances can decide to agree with others at multiple levels (granularity), right down to a definition. It would probably be difficult to agree on paragraphs, but not impossible. Search results with a lot of "agreement" are showed at the top of the result list, while those with with no agreement are shown at the bottom.
The agreement dynamics can already be seen in science between journals, articles, authors, even if it's less structured and formal. There are now search engines that use AI to measure an agreement/disagreement scale between papers (connected by citations).
Obviously, there needs to be some way to validate, track, and mark the "bad faith" instances to push them down or out of the results entirely. And that way has to be based on a combination of expertise and reputation, not on universal vote counts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia going to war.
A rare kind of encyclopedia that makes you more ignorant and/or angry the more of it you read, regardless of topics.
In case anyone doesn't know, you can download all of Wikipedia of you have 120GB of space. You can download a whole bunch of wikis straight off Kiwix.
I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge
Or you can always grab a torrent: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents
Also make sure to seed, preferably on a dedicated machine with an unmetered connection and high bandwidth.
Is that the medialess version or with images?
I think at 120GB that is the with media version. You can also get a medialess version as well. There's a wiki for how to download wikipedia if you want more info:
It would be a real shame if our furry overlords or some other group retaliated against the heritage foundation
We need anonymous back
In June, a panel of Wikipedia editors declared the Anti-Defamation League a “generally unreliable” source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
And there was an outcry this fall among some Jewish scholars and pro-Israel activists over edits to Wikipedia’s entry for Zionism to add references to “colonization.”
So basically the usual zionist hostility towards logical conclusions based on mountains of credible evidence. Except taken to 11.
roadmap for fighting antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Extremely unfun fact: Zionism and the aggressively counterfactual defense of it is the number one cause of ACTUAL antisemitism in the world.
Some people who have never been bigoted before start at justified outrage at the atrocities committed by the fascist apartheid regime in charge of Israel and go down rabbit holes conflating Israel and all Jewish people, leading to some of the most disgusting conspiracy theories in existence.
Militant zionism is also great at creating terrorists
Absolutely!
All kinds of violent suppression is, but the sheer scale, audacity and inhumanity as well as the complicity of most of the richest and most powerful countries in the world makes for an especially potent recipe for the kind of trauma and feelings of helplessness that leads to the extreme radicalization of oppressed people
Do you have a source about the Zionism thing? Because antisemitism was alive and well for most of western history. And for me personally seeing Israel starve a bunch of children in Gaza make me hate Israel / IDF, not the Jewish baker down the street.
Do you have a source about the Zionism thing?
gestures vaguely at every Zionist conflating Israel with all Jewish people
You can't just pretend that committing a laundry list of atrocities is acceptable while calling yourself representative of a wider group of people without some of the less discerning and/or more conspiracy-minded people taking you at your word and resenting the people as a whole.
Not saying that antisemitism is in any way acceptable, of course, but just like brutal oppression breeds terrorism, committing or defending things that should never be accepted while saying that you represent all of Jewdom is going to teach some people the wrong lessons.
Because antisemitism was alive and well for most of western history
Yes, and it has traditionally been mostly caused by the othering of Jewish people by conservative clergy or politicians trying to keep their "flock" in check, but that's not the main cause anymore.
While the "traditional" causes still exist, in a world where most people can read about and watch atrocities on TV, the Hasbara talking points meant to mollify and deceive the masses are no longer working, so instead of convincing people that the atrocities are necessary for Jewish people to be safe, some people are being convinced of another lie: that the atrocities are the kind every Jewish person would do if given the chance
And for me personally seeing Israel starve a bunch of children in Gaza make me hate Israel / IDF, not the Jewish baker down the street.
Same here, but not everyone is able and willing to make that distinction while the war criminals themselves and their most ardent defenders keep insisting that there's no difference.
