wikipedia is geniunely one of the last pillars of the internet in terms of our ability to actually gather and archive information. Musk knows this and wants to control it because he is exactly the same as every other billionaire. It genuinely cannot fall into his hands EVER. - ThreadSky

wootmaster.bsky.social • 65 days ago

wikipedia is geniunely one of the last pillars of the internet in terms of our ability to actually gather and archive information. Musk knows this and wants to control it because he is exactly the same as every other billionaire. It genuinely cannot fall into his hands EVER.

Reposted from Michael Clemens

Due to this idiotic statement, by a person who has proven his inability to distinguish truth from online propaganda, I just donated to Wikipedia. Please do the same.

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popotogrande.bsky.social•65 days ago

He is not exactly like every other billionaire, he is exactly like every other fascist.

shaneo902.bsky.social•64 days ago

What’s the difference?

scentglandscenario.bsky.social•64 days ago

Why is telling the truth always "woke"

techgamesplus.bsky.social•65 days ago

"Wokepedia" what an absolute dumbass 💀

sqky.one•65 days ago

it's so funny that they didn't even mention Fandom, like, you could've had all your propaganda laid out here buddy but you didn't even.

(for context Fandom is a for-profit wiki hoster founded by one of the founders of Wikipedia, and it's massively evil corporate bullshit.)

chase-omega.bsky.social•64 days ago

That shit got me through school

Also he's in no position to talk about woke shit when he owns Twitter, the most woketrash site on the internet.

aubiematic.bsky.social•62 days ago

Already donated, just like last year and the year before

thatweirdtiger.bsky.social•64 days ago

I just love that his post made so many make their first fo many donations just to spite him, and honestly? I'm considering donating myself when my next payment drops

oscaropossum.bsky.social•64 days ago

While I’m sure that’s true to some extent, my read on him makes it seem more likely that he combs his Wikipedia page weekly and happened to see something he didn’t like on there, maybe somebody added the pocket emeralds story.

ashtheshadowdragon.bsky.social•64 days ago

He wants it so he can control knowledge and hide facts so he can push his vileness with all of his twitter buddies

isabellemain.bsky.social•64 days ago

The guy who screams about free speech trying to censor the internet to his benefit even more. The fact that anyone buys his bullshit is insane to me.

Luckily though, I don't think right wingers were the ones donating to Wikipedia to start with.

8bitliv.es•64 days ago

something just hit me when reading this skeet again.

https://Archive.org was sued for being a library for things and has been fighting this for a while. Why hasn't the publishers sued the AI companies out of existence yet.

theahaykid.bsky.social•65 days ago

Fortunately, you can’t buy a nonprofit, so we don’t have to worry about him doing a Twitter on Wikipedia

sqky.one•65 days ago

you *can* bribe all the keyholders but a lot of them work with ethics and not monetary values (as in, they're not in a living situation dire enough for bribing to have an effect

but keyholders still exist, servers are still operated by select individuals, and moderators/admins governed by a few

sqky.one•65 days ago

(fyi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Board_of_trustees )

sephmoonstone.bsky.social•65 days ago

Something something blue shell solution and all that

frankhghtwr.bsky.social•65 days ago

sounds like we need more pillars

talcott.bsky.social•64 days ago

Funny isn't it? He can buy whatever he wants but there's absolutely nothing he can do to force people to like him and he probably wakes up angry about that every day. He grits his teeth every morning cursing at everyone else. Why can't I buy their love just like everything else?

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