Dumb Shit on Wikipedia

[Oats12345]

"Trump promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory" god wikipedia you are such utter fucking garbage. No wonder Google, Amazon and others are happy to farm their little infoboxes in search results out to these Wikiheads - only they could get away with borderline defamatory statements like that.

Honestly, that article there is approaching Rational Wiki levels of stupidity, I am not even sure what it is claiming to have debunked - that some people thought the COVID measures might be used as a power grab?

I don't remmber Trump promoting QAnon

 

[Corpun]

"Trump promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory" god wikipedia you are such utter fucking garbage. No wonder Google, Amazon and others are happy to farm their little infoboxes in search results out to these Wikiheads - only they could get away with borderline defamatory statements like that.

Honestly, that article there is approaching Rational Wiki levels of stupidity, I am not even sure what it is claiming to have debunked - that some people thought the COVID measures might be used as a power grab?

I await the day we get a defamation case against Wikipedia akin to that Hogan-Gawker case.

 

[ouch]

One of the few times anyone asked him, he said he had no idea what Q was. That might be a lie, but it's far from promoting or endorsing it.

Orangeman:
"What I do hear about it is they are very strongly against pedophilia, and I agree with that," he said. Guthrie then tried to get him to say there wasn't any "satanic pedophile cult," and Trump simply said, "I don't know that, and neither do you know that."

I don't know man, when you're president and someone up front asks you to deny that there's satanic pedophiles in congress, and you don't disavow, that's approval

 

[moocow]

I don't know man, when you're president and someone up front asks you to deny that there's satanic pedophiles in congress, and you don't disavow, that's approval

Well no, that's just refusing to be a performing monkey who dances on command and says his lines like a good boy. The correct response to any reporter "asking" you to explicitly deny or condemn something is generally "go fuck yourself."

Demands like that are just bait to distract people with. "Ooooooh! He didn't say the line! He must be a naht-see!" Fuck everybody who does that.

 

[Runch]

I await the day we get a defamation case against Wikipedia akin to that Hogan-Gawker case.

Unfortunately, Wikipedia is likely protected the same way Kiwifarms is under section 230. Defamatory text by random users is the legal responsibility of the author of the text, not the website itself.

Gawker may have been a different matter, as the content was posted with editorial approval, as a "news" site with paid employees and not relying on user submissions.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Unfortunately, Wikipedia is likely protected the same way Kiwifarms is under section 230. Defamatory text by random users is the legal responsibility of the author of the text, not the website itself.

My comment was hyperbolic, the point I was making is that on some level, it is supposed to be encyclopedic and therefore not foaming at the mouth hysterical. In years gone by, wikipedos would couch their un-encyclopedic statements in weasel words, but now they drop the pretense and write material that could have come from an MSNBC pundit.

Believe me, I am not asking for conservapedia (an almost equally idiotic website, but in the larger scheme of things, a side show). Honestly I miss the dry, dad-like prose of Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

[AnOminous]

Unfortunately, Wikipedia is likely protected the same way Kiwifarms is under section 230. Defamatory text by random users is the legal responsibility of the author of the text, not the website itself.

If Wikipedia itself was pushing the defamatory content, such as through a WMF employee, the employee would be liable and possibly WMF itself via respondeat superior, i.e. master/servant liability. Otherwise, only the poster would be responsible for their own claims of fact, and if they were actually citing so-called "reliable sources," possibly not even that.

So it would be pretty tricky, as WMF is pretty acutely aware of their potential liabilities, hence the BLP policy. So you'd need an insanely stupid WMF employee. These certainly exist. But you'd also have to have legal fall asleep at the wheel whenever they got legal notice of it. That could happen.

Also more dumb shit:

In 2018, Facebook and YouTube announced that they would help users detect fake news by suggesting fact-checking links to related Wikipedia articles.

From the Wikipedia article on Wikipedia.

 

[ouch]

Well no, that's just refusing to be a performing monkey who dances on command and says his lines like a good boy. The correct response to any reporter "asking" you to explicitly deny or condemn something is generally "go fuck yourself."

Demands like that are just bait to distract people with. "Ooooooh! He didn't say the line! He must be a naht-see!" Fuck everybody who does that.

politicians are performing monkies but I guess based donny isnt a politician lol

 

[moocow]

politicians are performing monkies

Indeed, but the lügenpresse are not their masters and are owed no scripted performances.

 

[Uncle Phil]

Isaac Butterfield (comedian) - Wikipedia

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I never gave a shit about this performer until I saw his wikipedia page where actual info about him and his career are dwarfed by the paragraphs about what people and groups have screeched over his jokes.

 

[AnOminous]

Isaac Butterfield (comedian) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I never gave a shit about this performer until I saw his wikipedia page where actual info about him and his career are dwarfed by the paragraphs about what people and groups have screeched over his jokes.

OMG OMG someone is telling tasteless jokes! Well thank God someone still is. It's like humor has been burned at the stake by these faggots.

 

[Shaka Brah]

OMG OMG someone is telling tasteless jokes! Well thank God someone still is. It's like humor has been burned at the stake by these faggots.

He sounds like your average ozzie. The ADL would have a stroke if it heard what they say to each other after a few lagers.

 

[Nigger Respecter]

"It is a joke. It is not real; it is make believe. I don't really feel like that, but that is what comedy is, it is people going on a stage and telling people jokes."

It's hilarious that these things have to even be said. It's no different than "a man is someone who was born male and a woman is someone who was born female" in how insane it is that these statements actually cause controversy.

 

[Corpun]

Also more dumb shit:


From the Wikipedia article on Wikipedia.

That shit on YouTube is cancerous. It is one everything you can imagine has a deboonked conspiracy theory. I think there is even one for the USS Liberty now too.

 

[Syntaxion]

A bit minor but someone vandalized an article about an MMA fighter and wrote that a guy who beat him is his dad. Didn't know it was vandalized so it threw me off the first time I read it. Although it's been changed back since then

 

[Shaka Brah]

A bit minor but someone vandalized an article about an MMA fighter and wrote a guy who beat him is his dad. Didn't know it was vandalized so it threw me off the first time I read it. Although it's been changed back since then

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I appreciate the humor in adding a subtle jab like that. Wiki vandalism like this is always funnier than the big page-defacing type.

 

[Corpun]

Simon Mol - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

You may have heard of this guy but I'm amazed how whitewashed a man who spread HIV to women is. No photograph of him on the page btw.

Here are some highlights, including the classic muh racism and I never knew I was HIV positive!

 

[Kaede Did Nothing Wrong]

someone in another thread asked when Chris chan is getting his wikipedia page so I checked in to see if anything has changed. and no, editors are continuing to hold the line that he is not a notable person. kiwifarms page doesn't even mention him by name.
most recent debate:

 

[Corpun]

someone in another thread asked when Chris chan is getting his wikipedia page so I checked in to see if anything has changed. and no, editors are continuing to hold the line that he is not a notable person. kiwifarms page doesn't even mention him by name.
most recent debate:
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Chris doesn't get a page yet James Sterling does.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

someone in another thread asked when Chris chan is getting his wikipedia page so I checked in to see if anything has changed. and no, editors are continuing to hold the line that he is not a notable person. kiwifarms page doesn't even mention him by name.
most recent debate:
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"GorillaWarfare" does nothing but haunt various supposed right-wing personalities/websites (despite the relative intellectual diversity here, this includes KF) article pages. No apparent expertise in any of it, he/she/it just plagiarizes news stories about whatever the outage of the moment is for shitlibs.