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0 pointsrighthand7mo ago0 comments

What would the backlash possibly be? Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run.

Backlash but positive backlash.

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notpushkin7mo ago

> Someone in the UK starting their own censored Wikipedia would be a good thing in the long and short run.

I’m seeing that playing out with a Russian Wikipedia (forked as Ruwiki and heavily edited to be in line with Kremlin propaganda), and I don’t like it one bit. There’s not much you can do as it’s free/open content, but it still sucks.

wiml7mo ago

Reminds me of Conservapedia, which was a Wikipedia fork with everything that the US religious right disliked removed.

wat100007mo ago

Present tense; it’s still around. Near the top of their list of popular articles is “Counterexamples to Relativity” which gives a good flavor of what it’s all about.

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