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The Heritage Foundation has been open about their desire to strip Wikipedians of anonymity, this is just the government putting that plan into practice: https:
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
The Heritage Foundation has been open about their desire to strip Wikipedians of anonymity, this is just the government putting that plan into practice:
https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-heritage-foundation-doxing-editors-antisemitism.html https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-...
- satanfirst 2y agoTheir entry on Wikipedia is well worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation Kind of explains a lot in the balancing act in Trumps rise to power while trying to look like a marionette for various interests this term. They should remember Hitler's rebellion from his masters.
- cutemonster 2y agoTrump is dumb and 80 though. But if he had been 40 and intelligent. Vance is 40, I wonder how intelligent or not is he?
- sterlind 2y agohe might be intelligent, but he has negative rizz. the only person excited about Vance 2028 is Peter Thiel.
- squarefoot 2y agoIf the HF is behind this, then Wikipedia is doomed beyond any legal defense. Back it up entirely and move it overseas.
- grafmax 2y agoAuthoritarian regimes thrive on fatalism and despair. But they also inspire resistance. We did not have mass protests a few months ago. Our society is in deep crisis and the outcome can still swing either way. For all the progress they’ve made in dismantling our democratic institutions, deep incompetence runs through this administration. Our efforts should be still directed to fighting their overreach. It is not the time to retreat.
- buyucu 2y agoThe easiest solution is for the Wikimedia Foundation to move out of Us jurisdiction to a more democratic country.
- guerrilla 2y agoI don't think that would work. The US would just attack those countries as they are doing right now, trying to force us to give up DEI and ESG.
- grafmax 2y agoIt’s questionable whether this bully continues to have as much influence as it thinks it does.
- guerrilla 2y agoI don't see any signs of succesful resistance yet.
- fugalfervor 2y agoChina is doing just fine resisting the bullying. EU can do the same.
- GoblinSlayer 2y agoEU already tried.
- fugalfervor 2y agothey should try harder.
- douglasisshiny 2y agoTo be more clear, it's operatives of the Heritage Foundation who now work in the government putting this into place. Does anyone think Trump actually does much day to day? He often seems completely unaware of what's going on in his own government. I invite anyway to watch his evening press conferences where he's handed a bunch of Executive Orders, is told what he's signing (he has no clue), and signs it.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoToo bad there's not a maximum age for being elected president.