Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors
Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
What's that, evidence of intent to commit terrorism?
The slideshow says the group’s “targeting methodologies” would include creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links that can identify people who click on them. It is unclear whether this has begun.
What a bunch of complete dipshits. That being said, there are ways to request yourself to be allowed to use a VPN when editing if these fascist threats intimidate you.
You could also use split tunneling on your VPN and only whitelist Wikipedia. But it's absolutely ridiculous that Wikipedia editors have to worry about opsec in the first place
Can’t have anybody spreading the truth now, can we?
Reality is just a liberal conspiracy!
Reality is a scam made up by Big Philosophy to sell more philosophy.
Perhaps the 'heritage foundation' needs some of it's own medicine. These people are domestic terrorists who are traitors to their country.
We need another brave group like that furry hacker group that pissed them off so much that they flew off the handle. Except I vote the group that does it doesn't make the same mistake as the last one by contacting them afterwards.
Maybe just dox Heritage Foundation members right back ...
You can just go to their website. They aren't hiding.
But they're also the friends and scions of the mega-wealthy, put in these positions specifically to fuck with the lower classes. If they're feeling a bit of impunity right now, you can hardly blame them.
In case anyone doesn't know, you can download all of Wikipedia of you have 120GB of space. You can download a whole bunch of wikis straight off Kiwix.
I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge
I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge
Wikipedia isn't just useful as a repository of information. Its useful because editors are constantly adding and refining the information within. Downloading a singular instance of the site is like owning an Encyclopedia. Diminished utility year-by-year.
True, but it depends who's going the refining. If they start censoring or changing facts, then the static instance on your hard drive has huge value.
Fortunately they don't on Wikipedia
Thanks for this PSA, it's stunning how we used to have encyclopedias in our studies but now no one collects the physical offline copies (which includes an archive of Wikipedia)
no one collects the physical offline copies
I've still got my dad's 1957 encyclopedia in a storage closet somewhere. Another one from 1981 is floating around somewhere. But they take up enormous amounts of space and don't do a great job of self-updating, nevermind searching or re-indexing.
Or you can always grab a torrent: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents
Also make sure to seed, preferably on a dedicated machine with an unmetered connection and high bandwidth.
Is that the medialess version or with images?
I think at 120GB that is the with media version. You can also get a medialess version as well. There's a wiki for how to download wikipedia if you want more info:
[...] you can find the data here: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/
The latest (January 2024) total dump for Wikipedia (English) is:
wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim…but there’s other languages and sizes available as well.
Repost of: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/12154129
Is that just the English version or all languages?
It would be a real shame if our furry overlords or some other group retaliated against the heritage foundation
Sounds like a terrorist threat to me. Unfortunately, our next administration is in bed with the terrorists.
In June, a panel of Wikipedia editors declared the Anti-Defamation League a “generally unreliable” source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
And there was an outcry this fall among some Jewish scholars and pro-Israel activists over edits to Wikipedia’s entry for Zionism to add references to “colonization.”
So basically the usual zionist hostility towards logical conclusions based on mountains of credible evidence. Except taken to 11.
roadmap for fighting antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Extremely unfun fact: Zionism and the aggressively counterfactual defense of it is the number one cause of ACTUAL antisemitism in the world.
Some people who have never been bigoted before start at justified outrage at the atrocities committed by the fascist apartheid regime in charge of Israel and go down rabbit holes conflating Israel and all Jewish people, leading to some of the most disgusting conspiracy theories in existence.
Militant zionism is also great at creating terrorists
Absolutely!
All kinds of violent suppression is, but the sheer scale, audacity and inhumanity as well as the complicity of most of the richest and most powerful countries in the world makes for an especially potent recipe for the kind of trauma and feelings of helplessness that leads to the extreme radicalization of oppressed people
Both through direct recruitment and by radicalizing their enemies.
Do you have a source about the Zionism thing? Because antisemitism was alive and well for most of western history. And for me personally seeing Israel starve a bunch of children in Gaza make me hate Israel / IDF, not the Jewish baker down the street.
antisemitism was alive and well for most of western history
So was anti-Teutonism and anti-Sinoism and anti-Americanism for that matter. I'm not sure you can absolve the Jewish state of its crimes by pointing to a rival clan of bigots.
seeing Israel starve a bunch of children in Gaza make me hate Israel / IDF, not the Jewish baker down the street.
Part of the problem with Zionism (and other ultra-nationalist movements), is how it deliberately works to draw sharp lines between people globally in order to justify horrifying colonial violence locally. I've got Jewish neighbors and family who are very weird on Israel specifically, because they've considered a Jewish State a source of pride for so much of their lives. You can't really address the Gaza Genocide without getting an earful about how Palestinians started it and Arabs deserve it.
In the same way, seeing my state government persecute trans people and black/hispanic minorities can't mentally be divorced from a Texas baker down the street waving a little Trump flag.
I don't know if it's the number one cause, but it has definitely caused me to have some antisemitic thoughts before I caught myself doing it and started making a serious mental effort to always distinguish between Zionism, Judaism, and Jewish ethnicity. Nothing else has ever caused me to give credence to racist ideas.
It also seems pretty obvious to me that it contributes to antisemitism when monsters like Netanyahu are allowed to get away with claiming they represent all Jews.
Do you have a source about the Zionism thing?
gestures vaguely at every Zionist conflating Israel with all Jewish people
You can't just pretend that committing a laundry list of atrocities is acceptable while calling yourself representative of a wider group of people without some of the less discerning and/or more conspiracy-minded people taking you at your word and resenting the people as a whole.
Not saying that antisemitism is in any way acceptable, of course, but just like brutal oppression breeds terrorism, committing or defending things that should never be accepted while saying that you represent all of Jewdom is going to teach some people the wrong lessons.
Because antisemitism was alive and well for most of western history
Yes, and it has traditionally been mostly caused by the othering of Jewish people by conservative clergy or politicians trying to keep their "flock" in check, but that's not the main cause anymore.
While the "traditional" causes still exist, in a world where most people can read about and watch atrocities on TV, the Hasbara talking points meant to mollify and deceive the masses are no longer working, so instead of convincing people that the atrocities are necessary for Jewish people to be safe, some people are being convinced of another lie: that the atrocities are the kind every Jewish person would do if given the chance
And for me personally seeing Israel starve a bunch of children in Gaza make me hate Israel / IDF, not the Jewish baker down the street.
Same here, but not everyone is able and willing to make that distinction while the war criminals themselves and their most ardent defenders keep insisting that there's no difference.
Sounds like it's because you're old enough to know better. You're not a 17 yr old listening to Rogan and believing tiktok over your girlfriend 🤷
Expect the accusations of antisemitism to extend to pedophilia, anti-white racism, and communism soon.
You mean like they haven't already? I've been hearing it for at least a few years now unfortunately.
Counterpoint. It's the latest entry point to indoctrinate new bigots and the millionth scapegoating.
The entire US conservative establishment is waging a holy crusade against anyone who opposes their Israeli alter ego's Biblical bloodlettings. You'd think they had no problems to handle at home.
Thank you to the Heritage Foundation for reminding me to donate to Wikimedia, almost forgot to do it.
Can you smell the freedom?
Made a note to donate on payday.
I always give to Wikipedia. I’m poor as shit, but anytime I see that banner they gonna get some money.
NOTHING has been as useful for me in the last 20 years. I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.
I’m a hillbilly who has no education past around the 5th grade. It has been invaluable to me. I wouldn’t be who I am without it. Honestly without the internet as a whole, but especially Wikipedia.
I have learned so much I’ve forgotten over half of it.
The crux is, i have learned it, told myself "Oh yeah, that's on Wikipedia" and only remember where to find what information. I'm utterly useless without Wikipedia, as many family quiz losses around Christmas turned out.. Hell, even sources i use for discussions on the internet i get often from Wikipedia articles, they sometimes link the actual studies...my google foo is pretty good, but some things i'm simply unable to find, except in the Wikipedia source lists...
I feel like that thing has now become too large to be considered a “banner.” Its approaching AIDS quilt dimensions.
I'm not donating this time, but only because I just made a big donation in response to Elmo talking shit about Wikipedia.
Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors in service to Zionism
Kinda burying the lead with that headline.
I put on a robe and a
wizardred hat. I gotchu wikiEdit: I also went to donate again. Let's hope this causes a storm for these assholes. Streisand effect kinda thing, wiki is probably humanity's single greatest altruistic/collective achievement.
I hope HF get the karma they deserve asap.
If god exists they're all going to hell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia going to war.
A rare kind of encyclopedia that makes you more ignorant and/or angry the more of it you read, regardless of topics.
Oh, there's actually a lot of them on the net.
Oh gosh, I was not aware of it! Thank you!
I remember making some troll edits on it, don't remember what it was exactly.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Fedi-pedia when? (Fediverse Wikipedia)
How would that function?
A portal site which lists search results. Each result contains a list of definitions/entries - each from different instances. Editors from different instances can decide to agree with others at multiple levels (granularity), right down to a definition. It would probably be difficult to agree on paragraphs, but not impossible. Search results with a lot of "agreement" are showed at the top of the result list, while those with with no agreement are shown at the bottom.
The agreement dynamics can already be seen in science between journals, articles, authors, even if it's less structured and formal. There are now search engines that use AI to measure an agreement/disagreement scale between papers (connected by citations).
Obviously, there needs to be some way to validate, track, and mark the "bad faith" instances to push them down or out of the results entirely. And that way has to be based on a combination of expertise and reputation, not on universal vote counts.
There's the federated wiki software ibis started by lemmy's developers.
So how do these idiots plan to solve the fact that many editors are not in fact based in the US. Just move edition these articles to any other country?
The Heritage Foundation doesn't care if the people they dox are Americans or not. They care not for borders when it gets in the way of their agenda.
Well. I think they can dox someone editing out of Pajala in Sweden, Drenas in Kosovo, Bifuka in Japan or Bella Cola in Canada and it will mean fuck all. Perhaps Cletus in Bumfuck North Carolina will seethe but i will mean nothing
what a joke
This is the way you would write that headline, lead with the thing people know.
And/or the group that broke the Supreme Court for the next 30+ years.
