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1. noduer+8a[view] [source] 2022-10-12 10:53:27
>>nickpa+(OP)
A paltry few hundred million $ in the war chest is nothing to keep open a site mainly devoted to coordinating established facts in an information landscape otherwise controlled by state actors.

And I would, and I did, contribute to Wikipedia.

Until it became clear to me that they'd allowed antisemitic, anti-Israeli politics to warp their articles about things like the Holocaust, the 6-day war or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the point that no neophyte could get a neutral recitation of facts, but would be confronted with an enormously racist and biased perspective at every step.

Essentially, they became like the UN general assembly. A body pretending to represent free speech and human rights that's stuffed with illiberal violators of human rights. And I don't need to contribute to that, or even care if it exists.

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2. pastag+Ib[view] [source] 2022-10-12 11:08:35
>>noduer+8a
This makes no sense especially if you know how Wikipedia works. But antisemtic propaganda accounts spread the same thing about Wikipedia, so no one will ever be satisfied.
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3. noduer+jd[view] [source] 2022-10-12 11:22:18
>>pastag+Ib
No, minorities will never be satisfied. Not when the platform's structure is geared toward allowing swarms acting on behalf of authoritarians to revise history.
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