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.
Anyone has an update on the ANI vs Wikimedia legal thats ongoing in India, because the heritage foundation is just throwong around a threat, that Indian judge might actually do it.
Burning Alexandria bcs knowledge works too much anti-oppression.
Normal Brownshirt stuff.
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
Awww… are the violent genocidal colonizers feeling insecure and butthurt?
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.
Maybe I am naive, or was too hopeful, but considering how astroturfed all platforms are by nation states and other bad actors, I only now realized Wikipedia could be extremely compromised due to their inability to withstand such attacks. The internet is over.
Sounds like we should develop plans to identify and target the heritage foundation.
Come and get me.
Maybe it’s time for a Fedopedia?
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.
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.
Lemmy has practically zero moderation. People have been calling for the deaths of CEOs for weeks with no consequences.
lol
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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.
Cool people, you say?
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.
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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.
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.
What are the names and addresses of the people who are saying they’re going to do that?
Opsec is more important than ever. Gangs-talking is real.
