• mekhos@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Close, from the article-

    The Russian media censorship agency Roskomnadzor demanded the volunteer-run online encyclopedia take down any information on the invasion that is “misinforming” Russians, according to a statement.

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      Wikipedia is not volunteer run… They’re using language to make it seem like it’s a little website with a dream being bullied by the mean Russians. Wikipedia is run by its administrators, who do not let anyone else encroach on their power. 3 editors are responsible for most edits (I want to say 90%). Famously there is one editor that edits from 6 am to 10pm every day without fail (mostly pro war edits) , and the most prolific editor worked as a TSA and ICE agent terrorizing migrants.

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        There are thousands of Wikipedia administrators, and they’re voted in by the community. The people who actually run Wikipedia are Bureaucrats.

        The 3 editors your referring to are bot accounts that do things like archive pages and format things consistently.

        Please learn more before spouting blatant lies, thanks :)

        • A Wikipedia editor

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators

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            You can’t just drop links and racism and pretend that’s an argument. Your post talked about administrators, I explained why that’s wrong. That goal post stays where it is.

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              Errr parent comment was troubling, but your claiming that calling out whiteness is “racism” is even more troubling. I don’t know a single place on earth where anti-white racism is a thing, despite fascists claiming that. To be clear, some anti-white resentment does exist in white-supremacist regions, but resentment is not racism or rather is a small subset of racism and not the actual problem that we more precisely call “structural racism”. (see also the wikipedia pages on those topics :))

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                3 years ago

                resentment is not racism

                I left Ruqqus for the stupid racism there, didn’t expect to find it on Lemmy

                That aside, I agree with most of what you said. My post was just to call out CriticalResist for running behind text walls after posting patently false info