House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias
United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36435178
What the hell does the house oversight comitee have to do with a private endeavor?
Even if there was such bias, doesn't the 1st amendment cover it, as it does Fox, for example?
forgot about Epstein yet?
There is nothing to investigate, Wikipedia is a private organization and if it has a bias it is none of the government's business.
The party of "small government?" "Don't tread on me?" What the hell happened, Republicans?
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Conservatives only care about small government when they are the ones being oppressed by the federal government. Like when Congress passed laws banning slavery.
But they care about federal laws being forced onto states when they are the ones doing the oppressing. Like when they passed the Fugitive Slave Act.
They don't care about their hypocrisy and, if anything, makes them want to do it more.
You forgot the scare quotes around "oppressed."
They don’t care about their hypocrisy and, if anything, makes them want to do it more.
Hypocrisy is a feature because it serves as a demonstration of their power and impunity. The message is "of course we're being blatantly hypocritical; what are you gonna do about it, peasant?"
Sorry, but that's all permanent political -isms. To find -isms which are not centered around that proposition, you have to leave politics and look for various ephemeral ideas, which only become popular in response to disturbances.
Facism happened. Governement run by Captialists.
Yep back in the 1930s.
They only ever cared about white supremacy. All that other stuff was bullshit.
That’s only when it’s private companies they like.
Every time I see a Don't tread on me flag, 50/50 it's also flown side by side with a thin blue line flag. Makes me cringe
That was always an obvious lie.
Is there something illegal about that? If Wikipedia has organizational bias, it’s covered by their first amendment right.
You have "The right to free speech (as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it)".
The Clash
A right that's getting rapidly eroded. Like, 1A is a right that's pretty much reduced to only existing on paper at this point and some politicians are probably looking for a way to erase it from the Constitution entirely.
Or replace it with the conservative version, which states: white men have the right to call black people the hard-R N-word, without consequences, including getting called racist, losing friends, losing employment opportunities.
Oh, boy, you must be new here.
rights for thee not for me
I'd say when open source seems organized against you, you might be the problem.
Reality has a non-frothing-at-the-mouth-oblivious-cult-member bias to it
But that really is a bias too. Everything has a bias relative to most existing points of view. That's why the "free speech" thing was invented, because when your world is larger than one isolated village or even one isolated, even if moving, royal court, then you can't make everyone think the same subjectively correct way. Free speech was a way for nations to survive modernization. There are more dimensions to the world than any single person understands enough to not be what you said. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is an idiot in something and would want to shut everyone up in that dimension.
Not only it's a right first and foremost of those you disagree with, though, but it also can't ever be based on good will. It can only be based on inability to break by force. Like any other institution.
I think many bad things in our reality are due to reliance on good will having been covertly put into many key places of the mechanisms.
Good thing I downloaded it then because it's probably going to be blocked in the US next.
How do you download Wikipedia?
Easiest way is via Kiwix.
Kiwix is probably the easiest way.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you. Investigate Truth Social, Twitter, the Smithsonian, the FBI, the DOJ, the President, Congress, the DoD, the DoE, the NSA, and the Supreme Court, if you are worried about bias.
might as well say hunt down and take out
Yes, truth and reality have a bias against fascism.
Scientific proof that we are in the dumbest timeline.
1st amendment mf. Wikipedia can have an article convincing people 2+2=5 if they want and it is protected speech you fascist assholes.
They're scared of self-governing NGOs and free fonts of knowledge.
aaaand just donated another $100 to Wikipedia.
If the US tries to kill Wikipedia I'm actually forming a militia
Like... You should probably get to work organizing then because they're already doing it.
They can try... Wikipedia has been bolstering themselves against this exact kind of attack for many years. They've made the entirety of the site completely downloadable for literally anyone to make and keep a copy and lots of people do (though the more the better).
The Wikimedia corporation that runs the actual site may have to ensure that it's incorporated in a different country though.
I'll join
the wilitia
In other words, they're not publishing the propaganda of the new fascist US government?
On July 4, 2026, nothing happened on Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, USA.
(And if something happened, its because they were viOlEnT riOToRs and we had to send in the tanks to restore LaW aNd oRdEr!!!)
The biases:
don’t forget climate change
So what if it was?
to be fair their thing is whining about shit for a day then moving on to different shit to whine about
"Anything that says Hitler was bad, slavery was bad, and that Donald Trump isn't literally God is biased and must be changed!"
changed=needs to be 187'd I hope that ice or a gop, or christian bible thumper come at me, I have no problems planting evidence like a cop would saying it was self defense
It begins.
It began 10 years ago. This is just the latest.
You are in boiling water, frog
It began in 1983, somewhere around TCP/IP becoming a thing.
400+ years ago at least...
If you don’t have a [Kiwix Server] spun up, do it today!(https://kiwix.org/en/)
This is a very neat thing, thanks for sharing!
Organized bias is illegal? Of course in this context its simply the truth.
Selfhosters, that is your cue if you haven't already made at least a local mirror
"organized bias" lmfao. Did you you mean jewish lobbies getting people fired and Israeli state flooding google ads with war propaganda?
So the truth is organized bias?!?
Oh look, it's HUAC II!
Can't it just relocate to say... Switzerland
Looks like it's back to Encarta for me, looking forward to Mind Maze
