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[–] Skyrmir 199 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What's that, evidence of intent to commit terrorism?

[–] RedditWanderer 124 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure just saying it is terrorism.

Try saying youll "doxx and target" UHC C suite and see how that goes. Theyll shove you in the same spot as luigi and name a hotline after you

[–] Manifish_Destiny 14 points 1 month ago

This could be done in literally like 50 minutes.

[–] jaybone 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There’s a Luigi hotline?

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[–] Diplomjodler3 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But I'm Trump's America, that's OK, as long as you're a Nazi.

[–] 800XL 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bring out your punchin' fists. It's time for a good ol' fashioned fash bash.

[–] P1nkman 28 points 1 month ago

The only good nazi is a dead nazi.

[–] TheTechnician27 178 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can’t have anybody spreading the truth now, can we?

[–] Diplomjodler3 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reality is just a liberal conspiracy!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Reality is a scam made up by Big Philosophy to sell more philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps the 'heritage foundation' needs some of it's own medicine. These people are domestic terrorists who are traitors to their country.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] fnrir 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean... What's stopping us, random Lemmy users, from making SiegedSec 2.0? If you want something done right, do it yourself.

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[–] Absaroka 92 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe just dox Heritage Foundation members right back ...

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] slingstone 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I would think Luigi Mangione and what he represents might make them nervous.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fortunately they don't on Wikipedia

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It would be a real shame if our furry overlords or some other group retaliated against the heritage foundation

[–] ZILtoid1991 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Our furry overlords are not enough, we need a team of Luigis.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Whoa. I didn't know they made Luigi in a fuckable format.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (8 children)
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[–] AngryRobot 67 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Sounds like a terrorist threat to me. Unfortunately, our next administration is in bed with the terrorists.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (35 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Militant zionism is also great at creating terrorists

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[–] BMTea 55 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Ransack3 53 points 1 month ago

Thank you to the Heritage Foundation for reminding me to donate to Wikimedia, almost forgot to do it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

basically the same thing they did to abortion doctors like dr tiller.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same thing that they will continue to do to abortion doctors.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and gender affirming care doctors

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[–] CharlesDarwin 40 points 1 month ago

Can you smell the freedom?

[–] raynethackery 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Made a note to donate on payday.

[–] theangryseal 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Ghostalmedia 35 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors in service to Zionism

Kinda burying the lead with that headline.

[–] RedditWanderer 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I put on a robe and a ~~wizard~~ red hat. I gotchu wiki

Edit: 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.

[–] asunaspersonalasst 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope HF get the karma they deserve asap.

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[–] veganpizza69 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A rare kind of encyclopedia that makes you more ignorant and/or angry the more of it you read, regardless of topics.

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[–] SoftTeeth 18 points 1 month ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Fedi-pedia when? (Fediverse Wikipedia)

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[–] Frostbeard 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

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