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Huh? Wikipedia isn't banned in Russia yet. Though I do expect them to take steps towards it.
Cool, so less Wikipedia vandalism for the rest of us!
Nope. The vandalism is by the troll farms and a weapon of the quiet information war waging against reality.
Give it 5 years and I bet Florida does the same.
There's already Conservapedia.
Filled with "alternative facts"?
The 2021 Capitol protests also known as the J6 FBI false flag attack on the U.S. Capitol or Fedsurrection consisted of a diverse group of American patriots of different races, backgrounds, and cultures protesting the electoral college certification of the fraudulent 2020 presidential election who were entrapped by the FBI on January 6, 2021.
I just threw up a little just visiting for 5 seconds.
Just a little?
Very much so. Last I heard the userbase was composed of roughly half truly sincere ultra-conservative nut and half parody accounts attempting to portray ultra-conservative views too extreme and nutty for the sincere ultra-conservatives, and nobody could tell who was what.
Poe's Law in action.
Last I knew they called the Russia-Ukraine war the "NATO War in Ukraine" and claimed Russia killed over 10,000 "NATO mercenaries" mostly from Germany.
Let's clone Russia, censor it and ban original
You mean uncensor it?
Let's just clone vlad and everyone gets one as a personal punching bag.
Kinda reminds me of the American Conservative vanity project
https://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
by the failson of the notorious 1970s political harpy Phyllis Schlafly.
This is all anyone needs to read from that site:
However, now that Trump was elected president, the establishment is trying to publicly align itself with Trump while marginalizing those who truly support Trump's agenda. One can see this in the fact that President Trump appointed many liberals and globalists β such as Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster, and Jared Kushner
That's right, Trump's own son in law is not MAGA enough.
President Trump appointed many liberals and globalists β such as . . . Jared Kushner
That's right, Trump's own son in law is not MAGA enough.
It's not that he's not MAGA enough, itβs the βKushnerβ part. You have to remember, βglobalistβ is just the word they use for βJewβ to seem marginally more appealing to the average fuckwit.
Of course, all you need to do is run a differential between Wikipedia and this thing to find exactly what the government is trying to censor. Idiots.
That would be a cool project. You'd basically see everything the Russian regime doesn't want you to see, i.e. all the interesting bits.
Wikipedia is not currently banned in Russia.
But the Russian branch of Wikimedia as an organization is.
Also, pretty much nobody in Russia uses Ruwiki, everyone keeps using Wikipedia.
That's all not to say it isn't a troubling development, though. But Russians are more likely to access Wikipedia through VPN than to rely on Ruwiki. The game's not lost.
Edit: Thank you OP for striving for the best accuracy!
Tbh Iβm most surprised by OPβs surprise. Russia doing weird, censorious shit like this is just another Tuesday.
So Putin's regime embraced, extended and extinguished it? How ironic...
Must be nice, in China we only have the poorly formatted, lack-of-citation garbage that is Baidu Baike https://baike.baidu.com/ .
The "sorting algorithm" article: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%8E%92%E5%BA%8F%E7%AE%97%E6%B3%95/5399605 only have 3 citations: none of which are the original papers and none of which have any links. I tried searching these "citations" and found absolutely nothing...
Similarly, the article for "Amsterdam" contains almost no citation beyond the first paragraph https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%86%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9%E4%B8%B9/814
Just imagine how bad it would be for more obscure concepts.
From the top of the page:
Ruviki 2.0 is in beta | Report bugs
Trying to pass this clone off as an "update" to actual Wikipedia lol
The Ruzzian Federation is lies all the way down.
So, now they are slowly (or immediately and forever, I don't know the time span) injecting propaganda into their clone of wikipedia and they are simultaneously thus admitting they are doing it. (to further brainwash the russian citizens)
So lettme repeat: FUCK PUTIN, and stuff your rubber clones in your ass. (which there are many of)
lmao what a fucker
Humans are stupid. We should just start over.
Issue reviewed and closed by WorldProgrammer73993224499 with comment: "Rewrite too expensive and complex, closing."
Russia wants to ban Wikipedia - the US wants to ban TikTok.
Something tells me the mass-surveillance toy they hoped the internet would turn into isn't working out the way they had hoped.
What the hell?
The only surprise in this news is that the "more like this" sidebar is filled with porn for some reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2024-04-25/In_the_media Wikipedia's own coverage, released 4 days ago. The repetition of the Orwellian detail makes me think both were inspired by Novaya Gazeta's coverage from the 11th.