I came here to say 'Fuck Russia’s Govt"
and that I feel bad for the Russian people.
I hope someday the world cheers on to say
Fuck every Western country government but we love people lol💛💚💙💜🤎and let the Western countries, that are okay today with subjecting others to atrocities, rot in their own mess, with nobody to help them and if they attempt to conquer and colonise again, liberate them like Libya
Every Western country government helped cause the rapid climate change emergency we’re in, so screw them, and especially the oil companies that spread lies about the severity of rapid climate change for decades. EDIT: Same for China’s government, Russia’s government, etc. Anyone still using fossil fuels, really.
A demonstration is unjustified when it touches the rights of others, someone told me, but censoring free information is a violation of our rights, I say. This is the example that the right to information for a human being is worth nothing, Russia labels everything as fake news but she herself has been spreading it over the years… What a disgusting world.
I wish the Russians luck in trying to send thousands of circulars about it in different languages to the thousands of volunteer Wiki editors. It leaves me with two reflections on this news, either the news is fake or the Russians are more idiotic than expected.
If Russian “circulars” had any power, they only need to send it to a few dozen administrators of wikipedia, not to the editors. Wikipedia does have a working heirarchy where some editors are more equal than others.
In any war, the first which die us the truth. In general, it is not easy to get reliable news about political events, the least reliable being those of the country’s own media. They say that we live in the information age, but although the internet provides the whole of human knowledge, it is lost among fake news by interested groups, memes, flat earther blogs and cat videos. Yes, the information exists, but to know the truth it is always necessary to contrast any news, through many different sources, one of them is the WikiI, not for current news, but to read the historical facts and backgrounds of a conflict… This can be a clue to better understand a piece of news and see if it can be real or one of the many hoaxes.
I bet that if it was the US asking Wikipedia to edit articles the media wouldn’t use the word “demand” or attribute it to the whole US. A likely headline would be: “email shows US official asked Wikipedia to censor ‘misinformation’”.
Close, from the article-
The Russian media censorship agency Roskomnadzor demanded the volunteer-run online encyclopedia take down any information on the invasion that is “misinforming” Russians, according to a statement.
The solution is real simple, don’t turn to wikipedia on matters that are politically charged. Get your news from a news outlet, instead of expecting that a crowdsourced online encyclopaedia might be up on current events.
