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What would the backlash possibly be? Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run. Backlash but posi
by righthand 1y ago
What would the backlash possibly be? Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run.
Backlash but positive backlash.
- notpushkin 1y ago> Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run. I’m seeing that playing out with a Russian Wikipedia (forked as Ruwiki and heavily edited to be in line with Kremlin propaganda), and I don’t like it one bit. There’s not much you can do as it’s free/open content, but it still sucks.
- wiml 1y agoReminds me of Conservapedia, which was a Wikipedia fork with everything that the US religious right disliked removed.
- wat10000 1y agoPresent tense; it’s still around. Near the top of their list of popular articles is “Counterexamples to Relativity” which gives a good flavor of what it’s all about.