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Comment by righthand

2 days ago

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.

> 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.

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

    • 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.