• Diplomjodler
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      But I’m Trump’s America, that’s OK, as long as you’re a Nazi.

    • @[email protected]
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      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

    • @[email protected]
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      444 months ago

      You can just go to their website. They aren’t hiding.

      But they’re also the friends and scions of the mega-wealthy, put in these positions specifically to fuck with the lower classes. If they’re feeling a bit of impunity right now, you can hardly blame them.

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        I don’t think they’re targeting the board or the ex3acs. They’ll target the volunteers who do the actual editing.

      • slingstone
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        134 months ago

        I would think Luigi Mangione and what he represents might make them nervous.

        • @[email protected]
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          54 months ago

          I think what he did was exciting. But what he represents?

          He took the School Shooter mentality to Wall Street.

          • @[email protected]
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            It’s not school children ruining our lives, so maybe I’ll just shrug then offer thoughts and prayers if it starts happening regularly.

            • @[email protected]
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              64 months ago

              It’s not school children ruining our lives

              It isn’t a single fungible CEOs, either. The problem is systemic, not individualistic.

              Shooting a bunch of Sandy Hook middle schoolers is definitely more horrifying. But the consequences of the action are more of the same.

              More cops, more surveillance, more conspiracy theories, more terror.

              if it starts happening regularly

              It will never happen regularly enough to undermine the profit motive. Not if it’s just random Lone Wolf vigilantes who binge watched Demolition Ranch videos and got delusions of grandeur.

          • slingstone
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            What I meant is that he represents a physically dangerous reaction to the kind of oppressive policies they and their ilk support. Right or wrong, people are losing patience with the billionaires and their lickspittles. Maybe the Heritage Foundation with their culture war BS won’t be so much of a target, but the economic interests they represent are obviously no longer able to imagine that they can get away with their thievery without some possibility of a violent reaction.

  • @[email protected]
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    So how do these idiots plan to solve the fact that many editors are not in fact based in the US. Just move edition these articles to any other country?

    • @[email protected]
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      The Heritage Foundation doesn’t care if the people they dox are Americans or not. They care not for borders when it gets in the way of their agenda.

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        Well. I think they can dox someone editing out of Pajala in Sweden, Drenas in Kosovo, Bifuka in Japan or Bella Cola in Canada and it will mean fuck all. Perhaps Cletus in Bumfuck North Carolina will seethe but i will mean nothing

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    It would be a real shame if our furry overlords or some other group retaliated against the heritage foundation

    • @[email protected]
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      I always give to Wikipedia. I’m poor as shit, but anytime I see that banner they gonna get some money.

      NOTHING has been as useful for me in the last 20 years. I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.

      I’m a hillbilly who has no education past around the 5th grade. It has been invaluable to me. I wouldn’t be who I am without it. Honestly without the internet as a whole, but especially Wikipedia.

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        I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.

        The crux is, i have learned it, told myself “Oh yeah, that’s on Wikipedia” and only remember where to find what information. I’m utterly useless without Wikipedia, as many family quiz losses around Christmas turned out… Hell, even sources i use for discussions on the internet i get often from Wikipedia articles, they sometimes link the actual studies…my google foo is pretty good, but some things i’m simply unable to find, except in the Wikipedia source lists…

      • Ghostalmedia
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        I feel like that thing has now become too large to be considered a “banner.” Its approaching AIDS quilt dimensions.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 months ago

      I’m not donating this time, but only because I just made a big donation in response to Elmo talking shit about Wikipedia.

  • karashta
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    854 months ago

    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

      • VeganPizza69 Ⓥ
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        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.

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          I like this idea in theory, but I think it would be easy for bad-faith actors to game the system. Expertise can be faked and reputation can be manipulated. Governments or other powerful/wealthy organizations could easily fund a large effort to shift agreement metrics toward their preferred narrative. We know Russia and China already have whole farms of people on social media trying to skew narratives and perceptions. Hell, I could see a tech-savvy individual distributing a software package to like-minded (or gullible) people in order to effectively automate the process of skewing the agreement metrics.

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          That sounds like it would require way more effort to maintain than the existing Wikipedia model.

  • Zier
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    Perhaps the ‘heritage foundation’ needs some of it’s own medicine. These people are domestic terrorists who are traitors to their country.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        I mean… What’s stopping us, random Lemmy users, from making SiegedSec 2.0? If you want something done right, do it yourself.

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          I can’t speak for anyone else, but I wouldn’t have a clue what to do. I’ve never done actual hacking before outside of once in a learning lab on a virtual machine where I sent a social engineered email to a controlled email address. But that’s not really hacking, let alone gonna be any use to a SiegedSec 2.0, now is it?

  • @[email protected]
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    Sounds like a terrorist threat to me. Unfortunately, our next administration is in bed with the terrorists.

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      Doxing is a terrorist threat…?

      Edit: Downvote me if you want, but I legitimately don’t understand. Is there a joke im missing…?

      • @[email protected]
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        Yes, it’s a terrorist threat. The point of the threat is to scare Wikipedia editors away from editing the site so they can fill it with their propoganda.

        • @[email protected]
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          14 months ago

          I vaguely remember republicans calling folks terrorists that doxed people for pushing nazi propaganda. Everyone was clowning on them then.

          • @[email protected]
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            When someone is dangerous, like one who spouts Nazi propoganda, I can see a reason for them to be doxxed. But that’s not the case here. China wants to send the reds after the people who write factual information on Wikipedia pages they don’t like.

            If they do that, Wikipedia is going to die because nobody wants to be assaulted for a volunteer gig.

            • @[email protected]
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              24 months ago

              Yeah, but that’s not really what im talking about. If doxing is terrorism, then doxing is terrorism. If it isn’t then it isn’t. “Rules for thee but not for me” doesn’t really fly outside of circlejerks.

              • @[email protected]
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                When the state executes a convicted murderer, it is not terrorism. If someone murders their spouse out of jealousy, it’s not terrorism. When a serial killer murders 10 people, it is still not usually terrorism.

                But when a radical minority group wants to push their political/religious agenda and subdue, oppress the general population by randomly murdering a bunch of them - that IS terrorism.

                All of the above are murders, but not all of them are terrorism.

                The same is true for every other type of aggression, including doxing. They can be used for many things in many cases. They can be used as a means of oppression, or the oppressed can use them to fight back against oppression. Almost all forms of aggression can be used for the good of society (e.g. by the police against criminals, or by the revolutionists against their oppressors) and of course for bad reasons as well. It all depends on the situation.

                So no, doxing does NOT equal terrorism. But it can be used as such.

              • @[email protected]
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                44 months ago

                Left wing murderers aim for the rich, right wing murderers aim for the people. Show me the left wing serial killer aiming for fox news indoctrinated neonazis, and we might feel differently.