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I used to try to fight back against these guys. Slowly but surely, they purge Wikipedia articles of anything that portrays the US government in a negative light.

The last straw for me was when they deleted this Wikipedia article. Luckily it was backed up on IPFS, and then later on Everipedia.

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dontbenebby|3 years ago

> I used to try to fight back against these guys. Slowly but surely, they purge Wikipedia articles of anything that portrays the US government in a negative light.

Speaking as an American my complaint is inaccuracy paired with volume. You shouldn't be editing Wikipedia all day, disproportionate attention is a form of state sponsored propaganda, especially paired with the kind of rules lawyering only folks getting the OPM per diem can afford to tip for.

To be clear: since I left civil society to focus on re-learning how to hack[2][3], it has come to light that they had a bunch of literal agents of foreign power operating as a cabal for the PRC[1].

(I'm struggling for a cite so don't have an exact date on that one, I had a period where I was experimenting with browser fingerprinting and archiving and got trolled a lot by folks who are ornery about Borders -- at least once the owner of... a business... instead of serving up an easter egg instead of a phish... COVID has been weird.)

Also, I interviewed as a privacy engineer there ages ago. Maybe I wasn't a cultural fit because the rest of the team kept their webcams on all the time? I said if hired I'd probably focus on getting a dot onion for wikipedia like the times did, since that would take a big load off exit nodes plus provide a privacy benefit if someone can't trust their ISP or whatever.

I hope they'll consider adding a dot onion, but on my end, my phone may have been hacked... or maybe it just crashed and it'll take a long time. There's enough ambiguity about very basic things that I may not recover some data until... [drumroll] after "the election" (sarcastic finger quotes), and I'm very sad because that means I won't be able to read the onion newsletter every day.

(I also sometimes read actual news, but mostly I just read this, the orange site, and the onion, the green site.)

//[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list... /[2] Years ago some woman from the KGB joked that I go on textfiles dot com for ASCII girls... I immediately shot back there's other sites for pornography, I was on there looking for instructions on how to build bombs in case they ever stop having elections. You know how these so called "doctors" are. //[3] I'm not a doctor.