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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIgnoring "X" propaganda central, instead Trump WashDC DOJ goes after WIKIPEDIA
Bizarrely unfathomable direction…
Completely ignoring the social media ‘s main source of misinformation
Musk’s “X”, the wacko Trump DOJ prosecutor decided to try and silence
the world’s best documented information website instead WIKIPEDIA
Hmmmm….. could it be because the Darkside wanted to purchase
Wikipedia to silence the truth, AND how WIKIPEDIA told the wannabe
buyers “to fuck off”, now Trump is retaliating
Sure looks like that’s exactly what’s happening now
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ed-martin-trump-threathens-wikipedia_n_680d17bbe4b06b5c9fc8d713
Trump’s D.C. Prosecutor Is Going After Wikipedia For Allegedly Spreading ‘Propaganda’

IrishBubbaLiberal
(1,632 posts)The current price of Wikipedia is:
$89,573,683,584,007,583.93
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Buying_Wikipedia
Q: Why are you selling Wikipedia?
A: Someone told us that we're mean bullies for deleting their talk page. That hurt our feelings, so we're passing on the problem to someone else.
Q: Who can buy it?
A: Anyone! Whether you're an insanely wealthy stock broker with $89,573,683,584,007,583.93 spare cash on hand or a lowly peasant with $89,573,683,584,007,583.93 spare cash on hand, we won't discriminate.
Q: What can I do once I own it?
A: Anything you want, even deleting the main page.
Q: Won't this sale rob the project of its credibility, its main asset, effectively rendering it worthless?
A: Don't worry about that
Q: Can I buy the Wikimedia Foundation, too?
A: Well... let me ask them first.
Q: Why is it so expensive?
A: Internet taxes, we think.
Q: What are you going to do with the money?
A: Very important business and philanthropic stuff, and also buy Jimmy Wales an ivory backscratcher.
The foundation wrote back, they said you can buy them for 10.29182 to the power of 10 dollars.
Q: Are the contributors included?
A: No.
erronis
(19,559 posts)Silly DU wouldn't let me use an exponent in the title line.
GenThePerservering
(2,841 posts)Mao Tse Don.
struggle4progress
(123,112 posts)... Emails Revealed: Court records show emails between Ed Martin and an ally urging online criticism of a judge handling a case he was involved in, which experts say is an ethical violation.
Legal Payouts: Martin’s actions have led to more than $600,000 in legal settlements or judgments against Martin or his employers, much of that not previously reported.
Politicized Prosecutions: Martin has reshaped the office to reflect Trump’s priorities, firing or demoting prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases and targeting Trump’s critics with legal threats ...
Barberis, a state court judge in an Illinois county across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, was presiding over a nasty legal battle for control over the Eagle Forum, the vaunted grassroots group founded by Phyllis Schlafly, matriarch of the anti-feminist movement. The case pitted Schlafly’s youngest daughter against three of her sons, almost like a Midwest version of the HBO program “Succession” (without the obscenities).
At the heart of the dispute — and the lead defendant in the case — was Ed Martin, a lawyer by training and a political operative by trade. In Missouri, where he was based, Martin was widely known as an irrepressible gadfly who trafficked in incendiary claims and trailed controversy wherever he went. Today, he’s the interim U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., and one of the most prominent members of the Trump Justice Department ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/ed-martin-trump-interim-dc-us-attorney-secret-judge-attacks
struggle4progress
(123,112 posts)Maybe we can find it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Martin_(Missouri_politician)
TommyT139
(1,377 posts)Wikipedia is the modern version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Whoever owns that can rewrite the most commonly-accessed resource for basic info, history, science -- anything.
Cha
(310,543 posts)Only not so "secret".
I read early on that Tusk wanted to got after Wikipedia and here we are.
What can be Done?!
TY
LymphocyteLover
(7,934 posts)Iamscrewed
(220 posts)The dark side is always with us.
hadEnuf
(3,175 posts)Truth is now propaganda.
Welcome to Nazi America.
littlemissmartypants
(27,585 posts)My favorite tee shirt is from their merch shop. It fits really well and is cotton.
Free knowledge t-shirt for women
https://store.wikimedia.org/products/wikipedia-free-knowledge-t-shirt-women-v-neck
Wikipedia Store
https://store.wikimedia.org/
Donate:
https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?
❤️
Crunchy Frog
(27,583 posts)is still protected speech under the 1st Ammendment.
I'm not aware of any propaganda outlets in this country ever getting in trouble for it.