The Heritage Foundation has been open about their desire to strip Wikipedians of anonymity, this is just the government putting that plan into practice:
replyhttps://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-...
If the HF is behind this, then Wikipedia is doomed beyond any legal defense. Back it up entirely and move it overseas.
replyAuthoritarian regimes thrive on fatalism and despair. But they also inspire resistance. We did not have mass protests a few months ago. Our society is in deep crisis and the outcome can still swing either way.
replyFor all the progress they’ve made in dismantling our democratic institutions, deep incompetence runs through this administration.
Our efforts should be still directed to fighting their overreach. It is not the time to retreat.
The easiest solution is for the Wikimedia Foundation to move out of Us jurisdiction to a more democratic country.
replyI don't think that would work. The US would just attack those countries as they are doing right now, trying to force us to give up DEI and ESG.
replyIt’s questionable whether this bully continues to have as much influence as it thinks it does.
replyI don't see any signs of succesful resistance yet.
replyChina is doing just fine resisting the bullying. EU can do the same.
replyTo be more clear, it's operatives of the Heritage Foundation who now work in the government putting this into place. Does anyone think Trump actually does much day to day? He often seems completely unaware of what's going on in his own government. I invite anyway to watch his evening press conferences where he's handed a bunch of Executive Orders, is told what he's signing (he has no clue), and signs it.
replyToo bad there's not a maximum age for being elected president.
replyTheir entry on Wikipedia is well worth a read:
replyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
Kind of explains a lot in the balancing act in Trumps rise to power while trying to look like a marionette for various interests this term. They should remember Hitler's rebellion from his masters.
Trump is dumb and 80 though. But if he had been 40 and intelligent.
replyVance is 40, I wonder how intelligent or not is he?
he might be intelligent, but he has negative rizz. the only person excited about Vance 2028 is Peter Thiel.
replyGetting really bad vibes from this. Plenty of people in power are unhappy with Wikipedia for years. So far it’s an amazing source and surprisingly neutral given the complexity of the problem. Would not want to lose it in a political fight.
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