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Summary
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, plans to use facial recognition and hacked data to identify Wikipedia editors it alleges are promoting antisemitism, according to leaked documents.
The group’s proposed tactics include fake accounts and tracking links, raising privacy concerns among Wikipedia contributors.
This effort, part of Heritage’s Project Esther, follows controversies over Wikipedia’s handling of Israel-related topics, such as labeling the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) “unreliable.”
Critics warn this campaign to target editors could violate Wikipedia’s rules and escalate tensions over bias accusations.
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violate Wikipedia’s rules and escalate tensions over bias accusations
after being alive over the last ~10 years, i just can’t understand how people still think “rules” matter to republicans. there’s literally a convicted felon rapist in the white house and people are still talking about rules, laws, ethics, the constitution, and everything else that USED TO matter.
they’re getting every single thing they want, and it’s not “rules” that’ll ever stop them
…people are still talking about rules, laws, ethics, the constitution, and everything else that USED TO matter.
That’s because they still believe in the existing institutions that were designed to uphold laws, rules, and ethics, even though those institutions are obviously failing, and have been for some time. I suppose the erosion of said institutions has occurred gradually enough that the full scope hasn’t necessarily been apparent to everyone, but it should be by now. Anyone who still believes that these institutions are sufficient for maintaining a stable liberal democracy is just delusional, at this point.
Exactly this.
Rule of law is dying, and things like this are what will kill it dead. Thinking you can put a stop to this with lawyers is for the naive or the wealthy.
Anyone who still believes that these institutions are sufficient for maintaining a stable liberal democracy is just delusional, at this point.
Twenty years ago, I remember asking my high school teacher about how the legal system here in Australia works cause we don’t have a bill of rights. I was told the “traditions of Parliament” would protect free speech and human rights even though it’s not written down anywhere…
Fast forward twenty years and Australia’s government is fully in the pocket of monopolistic corporations and a handful of elite families who own the top banking industries - mining, gambling, etc.
It’s not just Republicans at this point… It’s the entire system. His inauguration itself will be illegal and unconstitutional since he’s ineligible to hold office after sparking insurrection. But the Democrats keep climbing over each other to make sure everyone sees how peaceful this transfer of power is.
It blows my mind that they keep doing that. Why do they think that going “see, we’re the good guys, and we’re so good that we’re going to peacefully hand over control of every branch of government to the fascists” as though the US population is going to see that a positive. It’s clear now, if it wasn’t before, that their claims of a threat to democracy was just campaign messaging for them, not a real belief. (And to be clear, the Republicans are very much a threat to what passes for democracy in the US.) The Democrats seem all too happy to be in the minority again and rake in the donations from outraged liberals who think that the old rules still apply.
Appeasement always worked out so well in the past. What could go wrong?
“When you’re [rich] they just let you do it” - guess who
Totally get what you’re expressing, however, do you have a suggested alternative to mentioning rules now?
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Is that a joke or did you really get censored…?
I wrote the word censored
Probably would say Removed by mod instead
Well it’s now a thing that some instances have rules that will automatically censor words you write and replace them with words like
redactedso I wasn’t sure if this was a case like that. Pretty sure their joke here was playing off of those instance-level rules.
That felon/rapist literally won’t be in the white house for another week and a half.
You’re getting downvoted for pointing out that Trump is literally not in the White House. And by that I assume you meant he’s not even President.
Yup
Even if that’s true, do you think President Vance will be any better?
To quote Jello Biafra- “I’d rather have a dumb Nazi than a smart Nazi.”
i think he was talking about my misuse of “literally” since he’s not actually in the white house yet, not that he’ll somehow be removed from office
hell of a thing to argue about; hence our current situation…
So if it’s legal for them to do it to Wikipedia, can we crowd source doing it to them?
Can’t doxx people that gladly shout this kind of stuff in public.
Consequences make them afraid. And shame works on them too, but only if it is from their kind.
In the US doxing is not illegal.
The Heritage address in Washington DC is extremely easy to look up. I would post it here, but someone would probably ban me for doing unto them what they would do unto us. Still the opportunity to get them before they get you exists.
Here ya go: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, D.C., U.S.- right on the Wikipedia page.
Of course, I wouldn’t advise doing anything more than a lively peaceful protest outside. But also I can’t stop you from doing something more effective.
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Lemmy has practically zero moderation. People have been calling for the deaths of CEOs for weeks with no consequences.
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And then get it🥷🔫
That’s not specific actionable data. I have already been permabanned from reddit for my anti-Nazi views. Rather not risk it.
Thanks for the warning.
Mostly CEOs who are actually dangerous or otherwise malicious. Im pretty sure most of Lemmy would completely skip over Gabe Newell even if he is a billionaire simply cause he is the good one and valve’s business practices have been pretty good for going on 20 years now.
Except for the csgo gambling I have no complaints about Gabe and he really does a lot of good stuff with valve, so he really might be one of the better billionaires.
He’s on the list, but I think the billionaires/millionaires will fall in line before we get to him.
lol
Cool people, you say?
That sounds like a threat to create fear or “terror” towards Wikipedia editors. The heritage foundation are treating closely to looking and acting like terrorists.
The heritage foundation are
treating closely to looking and acting liketerrorists.
Fascists want to attack everything good
Awww… are the violent genocidal colonizers feeling insecure and butthurt?
Sounds like we should develop plans to identify and target the heritage foundation.
Wikipedia is probably the only thing that has survived rounds and rounds of enshitification. Of course they want to destroy it. The fucks are psychopathic, and seriously, if Wikipedia caves I will probably be radicalized.
THIS is the line for you? In spite of everything else?
Not everyone wants to feel like they need to take violent extremist action to fight back against them. What actions have you taken to fight back?
Where did you get violent extremism from? That’s not radicalization. Though some people who are radicalized choose to incorporate violence as part of direct action it is extremely rare.
Do some mutual aid for starters. (This is what I’ve done, among other things, i will not elaborate.)
If you want to fight back on this particular issue and have tech skills you can run counter-intel and expose fashy heritage foundation boys or you could do other methods like decoy or feed false identifying info.
I’m happy anyone gets motivated to take action. Just a little surprised that it startes with wikipedia editors and not, just for example, palestine or women’s bodily autonomy.
Where did you get violent extremism from?
Wikipedia for radicalization
Cool, you failed to read the second sentence. That article on mutual aid is fucking insane and paints an idiotic picture on mutual aide. The taliban and religious charity are simply not mutual aid groups, what the fuck. Whole page feels like it was written by a fox news intern…
I’ll give ya so much as we have two interpretations i guess. Mine aligned better with the article on “Radical Politics”.
Anyone reading in the future just note the timestamp.
Maybe it’s finally time for me to donate to Wikipedia for the first time.
As soon as muskrat targeted them I set up a monthly donation.
F the Heritage foundation. Just another conservative propaganda machine that twists objective fact to support conclusions or starts with conclusions and eliminates contrary data or nuance until they get what they want.
This is just more Y’all Qaeda sharia law trying to create their own alternative facts and control the narrative.
Fuck
Normal Brownshirt stuff.
Burning Alexandria bcs knowledge works too much anti-oppression.
Attack information. Don’t allow the unwashed masses access to data. Don’t allow them to think.
Just headlines, pics and tweets.
If you want to download all of Wikipedia just in case
They publish their own database dumps here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Where_do_I_get_it.3F
This is why it pisses me off wikipedia makes it impossible to edit using most VPNs or TOR.
Like I understand there is a spam problem, but lots of people don’t feel safe (or straight up can’t) edit using their normal IP.
What solution would you propose? I assume the main problem is that it supposedly limits Wikipedia’s ability to ban people that would otherwise just make another account? Maybe they could limit VPN editing to accounts with 500 edits or whatever.
In any case now seems like a great time to prod them to reconsider this policy.
I would propose you be allowed to create a new account using a VPN or TOR, and to prevent abuse, your first 5 edits are vetted before they are accepted and only after 5 accepted edits you get the privileges of a normal wikipedia account.(current policy is that everyone has editing priviledges without vetting, but VPN and TOR IP’s are blocked).
Also I think it’s ridiculous that an already established account can get banned from wikipedia if they did nothing wrong except make a wikipedia edit using TOR.
The main problem with TOR on wikipedia before it was banned was that people would make vandalism bots that created immense spam and avoided being IP blocked by using TOR. IMO the “pending edits” function would make an account like that basically a non-problem.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Temporary_accounts
This might be of interest.
Temporary accounts is just your IP. But it’s blocked on TOR and VPN IPs. Just like normal accounts.
Sure. I wasn’t sure if you were still thinking that guest edits still showed your IP. Automatic temp accounts was only recently implemented, IIRC.
