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Yeah, at one place I worked at, an employee was banned because she kept trying to remove certain information about the organization from Wikipedia. I was a lit
by at_a_remove 7y ago
Yeah, at one place I worked at, an employee was banned because she kept trying to remove certain information about the organization from Wikipedia. I was a little amused, but she very nearly got our whole range banned.
I find coordinated efforts to edit Wikipedia -- by whoever and whatever "good" their reason to be -- fairly creepy. It's like a lot of little Ministry of Truths running about the place trying to massage reality.
- contingencies 7y agoIt's like a lot of little Ministry of Truths running about the place trying to massage reality. You just described the entirety of the advertising, public relations and marketing industries. It's essentially commercialized brainwashing. Humans, as social animals, have been at it at least since recounting great stories of hunting as pre-sapien hominids and probably earlier as pre-hominids.
- nateberkopec 7y agoThe first sentence is also the thesis of Adam Curtis' documentary The Century of the Self.
- DyslexicAtheist 7y agounderrated (timeless) documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04