• equinox [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Is there anywhere I can read more about the Wikipedia thing? Preferably more recently since the other article I can remember from Reuters is from 2007 lmao

    • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      Honestly, its possible thats the article I saw? So it might be old information. I'll keep that in mind for next time especially since yeah, I dont have the article handy and havent been able to find it when I went looking.

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        1 year ago

        Here's the link to the 2007 for future reference. Most of the results that show up on Google are from Wikipedia itself (like this one) which comes with its own problems.

        The biggest point to note, however, is that Wikipedia relies on third-party sources to back up their claims, and being a primarily english-speaking, west-hosted service, a lot of these sources will be sometimes biased and sometimes from authors who straight up make shit up. I found this Reddit post on r/communism from ~2yrs ago of a user who scrutinized the sources on its page for Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens and found many anti-communist authors present.

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            "My mother grew up in the Soviet Union … So I'm very conscious of what, what it can mean to make knowledge free, to make information free"

            I want that to mean free information helps propel humanity forward but I feel like, with this being hosted on CBS, its meant to imply it can help bring these countries down and under capitalist control

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          OK that reuters article is definitly not what I saw. The one I saw was a critical article about a single guy who was not an employed fed but an avowed and commited anticommunist who had like 1/3 of the edits on the website. Wish I still had the article.