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I dont know what kind of people I expected wikipedia editors to be, but this Soibangla person is pretty much it. Big reddit moderator energy about them.

yucky 4y ago
Wikipedia is heavily astroturfed, and interestingly enough they get a ton of funding from the Tides Foundation, which is a dark money PAC. Even better, the General Counsel of Wikimedia is Amanda Keton who came over directly from the Tides Foundation. https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/amanda-keton/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/amanda-keton/ Wikipedia is untrustworthy now, and it sucks.
- ianai 4y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
- wahern 4y ago
  Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman, was one of the fiercest and effective advocates for consumer rights and (from the perspective of most people on HN) Internet freedom ever on the commission. Yet before his appointment he was a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries--more than just a lobbyist, he was president of their foremost industry lobbying organizations. If you have specific evidence of prejudice, or better yet arguments regarding specific policy positions, feel free to share them. To my mind, ad hominem arguments reflect more a dearth of substantive criticisms than they do a likelihood of bias and abuse.
  - throwaway0a5e 4y ago
    That's a two way street. Elizibeth Warren is basically the reverse story. Long time consumer advocate it was hard to find much fault with then sold her morals to the DNC and their donors for a senate seat.
- stjohnswarts 4y ago
  There is a lot of innuendo and insinuations in your statement but no proof or specific examples...
  - yucky 4y ago
    The people writing the biggest checks to Wikimedia (and the former General Counsel for said org) not only have a specific political agenda, they literally only exist to promote that agenda and raise billions of dollars to do so. So are you asking me to provide access to a smoking gun handwritten letter (or maybe a video!) where they outline their plan of attack, or is there something else you were looking for?

yucky 4y ago

Wikipedia is heavily astroturfed, and interestingly enough they get a ton of funding from the Tides Foundation, which is a dark money PAC. Even better, the General Counsel of Wikimedia is Amanda Keton who came over directly from the Tides Foundation. https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/amanda-keton/ https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/amanda-keton/ Wikipedia is untrustworthy now, and it sucks.

ianai 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
wahern 4y ago
Tom Wheeler, former FCC chairman, was one of the fiercest and effective advocates for consumer rights and (from the perspective of most people on HN) Internet freedom ever on the commission. Yet before his appointment he was a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries--more than just a lobbyist, he was president of their foremost industry lobbying organizations. If you have specific evidence of prejudice, or better yet arguments regarding specific policy positions, feel free to share them. To my mind, ad hominem arguments reflect more a dearth of substantive criticisms than they do a likelihood of bias and abuse.
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago
  That's a two way street. Elizibeth Warren is basically the reverse story. Long time consumer advocate it was hard to find much fault with then sold her morals to the DNC and their donors for a senate seat.
stjohnswarts 4y ago
There is a lot of innuendo and insinuations in your statement but no proof or specific examples...
- yucky 4y ago
  The people writing the biggest checks to Wikimedia (and the former General Counsel for said org) not only have a specific political agenda, they literally only exist to promote that agenda and raise billions of dollars to do so. So are you asking me to provide access to a smoking gun handwritten letter (or maybe a video!) where they outline their plan of attack, or is there something else you were looking for?