Wikipediocracy

Daniel Brandt

Don't forget WMF head Katherine Maher, who left last April. She has strong connections to the U.S. intelligence community. Jimbo was probably getting jealous.

https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/11/meet ... ative-ceo/

Daniel Brandt

Are any of these jokers still around? If so, it means they have more than eight years of experience. How can you go wrong with that?

https://archive.is/Ku5u7

Daniel Brandt

No discussion of Wikipedia's spooky side is complete without mention of Katherine Maher and her connections to U.S. foreign policy groups, including the National Endowment for Democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Maher She was executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation from 2016-20...

Daniel Brandt

Actually, if I were a conscientious forum admin, I would probably split the posts starting with Daniel's to the Jimbo forum and call the thread "Jimbo's worthless Section 230 observations." If we can find other worthless observations by Jimbo from the past, maybe merge them all into the one place f...

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wikipedia-founder-jimmy-wales-section-230-195707348.html "To control misinformation and disinformation, rather than reforming Section 230, Wales suggests strengthening financial transparency rules so that consumers know who's funding ads, including political ads." Hey ...

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I predict that we won't be hearing much about a Section 230 repeal from Biden and his team over the next two months. Republicans are starting to do the Democrats' dirty work in denouncing the Twitter and Facebook bans of Trump's accounts, which is basically what Biden and friends would otherwise be ...

Daniel Brandt

Repealed and replaced? Perhaps. But first repeal, and see what develops over the next few years. The Communiations Decency Act with its Section 230 was passed in 1996. No Google, no Facebook, no Twitter. I was still sending out my Namebase database via the U.S. Post Office on floppy disks. There wer...

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If Section 230 is repealed without conditions, I can see it affecting Wikipedia. But it won't be a huge problem. It affects mainly BLPs -- biographies of living persons. Someone with a BLP about them will be in a position to object to the content. The WMF will have to edit the article to that person...

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"60 minutes" from CBS News is the most famous news program on U.S. television. On January 3 correspondent Scott Pelley dumped on Section 230 with a vengeance. Here is the written transcript of that program: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/section-230-internet-60-minutes-2021-01-03/ The last paragraph m...

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The 1996 Law That Ruined the Internet: Why I changed my mind about Section 230.

by Steve Randy Waldman

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... on/617497/

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Jimbo had his chance. In 2005 he let a scandalous fake bio on Seigenthaler last for several months before Seigenthaler noticed it and blew the whistle. There were other nasty BLPs before that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Seigenthaler_biography_incident Jimbo was too busy schmoozing with ...

Daniel Brandt

Bruce Reed, Biden’s vice presidential chief of staff from 2011 to 2013 and a longtime adviser, will become a deputy chief of staff in the new administration, the transition team announced. (For more on Reed, and his and Biden's support for dumping Section 230, see page 3 of this thread.)

Daniel Brandt

And not that any reporters actually read our blog, but this might be a good angle for our own post on the subject, especially since we're about 8 months overdue for one. This hint from you, I presume, might relate to how a repeal of Section 230 would or should suggest a policy change on Wikipedia, ...

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I disagree that Section 230 is dead because Trump has a big mouth and doesn't know what he's talking about. Yes, he probably got started on Section 230 criticism because someone told him, "If we repeal this, Twitter will be forced out of business." Soon after, a bunch of Republicans in Congress prob...

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N.B.: One nice thing about Biden winning the election (assuming the results aren't overturned) is that people like me are likely to be less concerned about Russian dark-money propaganda for a while. Good grief, Midsize Jake! "Russian dark-money propaganda"? Don't you remember Edward Snowden's revel...

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One last comment by me on Helen Buyniski in this thread. It's related to Section 230, if only because Wikipedia is going to have a problem unless new Section 230 legislation carves out a special place for anonymous Wikipedia editing shenanigans -- not to mention Wikipedia's anonymous critics. The pr...

Daniel Brandt

How long has this been going on? The RT article links to https://thehustle.co/inside-wayback-machine-internet-archive,The Hustle dated September 28, 2018. Is there a link to the Archive.org blog? RT has of course a strong POV so it might be helpful to review what Archive.org itself says. Yes, RT ha...

Daniel Brandt

Poetlister: I don't have any answers, but I know that the Internet is going to hell in a handbasket. I found a long essay (47 pages) that is worth reading: Digital Realignment: Rebalancing Platform Economies from Corporation to Consumer Dipayan Ghosh and Nick Couldry Harvard Kennedy School & London ...

Daniel Brandt

The "Wayback Machine" (also known as "Archive.org") is planning on a new effort to "fact check" entries. See: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/505437-internet-archive-censorship-slippery-slope/ My first impression is that this is a clever way to Cover Your Ass in a "post-Section 230" world. Facebook and Twi...

Daniel Brandt

It wasn't Rozenshtein's intention, but he presents a good argument for my position. That is to say, just pass a one-sentence law that says Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act is hereby null and void. Then see what happens down the road. Maybe Google, Facebook, Twitter, et.al. will col...

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That's a tough question from el84 . The answer is, "Nobody knows." But for the sake of argument, let's assume that Section 230 is repealed outright, with no conditions attached to this in the language of the repeal. My best guess is that the Wikimedia Foundation would have to get busy. First, they'd...

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This is all very sensible, though of course it is unlikely to happen. (3) in particular would mean that every US editor would have to be validated; that is quite inconceivable. It would be great for stopping sockpuppetry of course. This is not particularly shocking. Think of a newspaper: you have t...

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Changes needed on Wikipedia: 1) The Wikimedia Foundation must be more hands-on in matters that involve content related to living persons. Jimbo should resign from any Foundation business related to content on Wikipedia. He has demonstrated over the years that he is not qualified to make decisions ab...

Daniel Brandt

More discussion of Encyclopedia Dramatica drama in 2020: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/encyclopedia-dramatica.24003/page-27 https://kiwifarms.net/threads/encyclopedia-dramatica.24003/page-28 I'm think there might be clues in there for anyone who can hold their nose long enough to read those two foru...

Daniel Brandt

More stuff: Another domain, "encyclopediadramatica.fyi", is also on Cloudflare. It gets redirected to encyclopediadramatica.wiki. Based on the Alexa traffic graph at https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki.siteindices.com/ and compared to the same graph at https://encyclopediadramatica.fyi.siteindices.co...

Daniel Brandt

I accidentally came across EDF4 (Encyclopedia Dramatica Forums, 4th generation): https://malhub.com/index.php?threads/taking-down-ed.687/ It's quite an active forum, and it would take a day to read thoroughly. Fortunately it's not using Cloudflare so it's easy to navigate, and their search function ...

Daniel Brandt

There's another ED online: https://encyclopediadramatica.wiki/index.php/Girlvinyl Connectivity to this one was intermittent yesterday, but is okay as I write this. At least it is still on Cloudflare's nameservers, whereas encyclopediadramatica.se now shows parked nameservers. Yesterday Cloudflare ha...

Daniel Brandt

All the recent fuss over ED's various wannabe owners makes me nostalgic for Girlvinyl.
https://sherrod.im/

At least she knows how to clean up her image!

Daniel Brandt

Here's a fairly frivilous mainstream piece about the role of Section 230: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/section-230-gets-killed-wikipedia-131544905.html Here's a 5-meg PDF copy of the Wikimedia Foundation's Form 990, which has names, salaries, and projects of the WMF. It seems like they're having a...

Daniel Brandt

The hype and excitement on Twitter about the deal between Cloudflare and Wayback makes it sound like Cloudflare has just taken over the entire Internet. But if you dig deeper, it's more like Wayback has taken Cloudflare for a ride! https://theregister.com/2020/09/17/internet_archive_wayback_machine_...

Daniel Brandt

I think Congress should pass a one-line law that declares Section 230 of the 1996 law null and void. Then they can count the bodies a year or two later, after seeing what the effect was of stripping Wikipedia, Cloudflare, etc. of immunity. This thing is too complicated to handle in a single pass. Fo...

Daniel Brandt

The Section 230 fuss is increasing. Search news.google.com for "section 230" and see for yourself. Too bad Seigenthaler is no longer around to add to the discussion.

Daniel Brandt

Trump is against Section 230, as noted in this thread. He recently made some sort of Executive Order regarding this. Joe Biden is strongly against Section 230 also. Something will happen soon in Congress regarding this. I think all of this activity is a Good Thing because Section 230 deserves to die...

Daniel Brandt

Poetlister wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:15 pm
Of course, that all depends what you mean by the real Daniel Brandt. :evilgrin:

Here's a clue: the real Daniel Brandt has been dealing with warmongers and wiki assholes for a long, long time. https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-brandt-3

Daniel Brandt

Conradrock's departure was not very graceful. Perhaps the feds walked away with his computers to look for evidence. Judges give the FBI anything they need, and a search warrant would be easy if the FBI is on the case. You can't do a forensic examination of a computer onsite -- you have to ship it to...

Daniel Brandt

On January 15, 2020, Slate.com named Cloudflare as number 21 on its Evil List of the top 30 tech companies.

Daniel Brandt

After reading "Wikipedia and the Deep, Dark Web" by Dolores Haze on the wikipediocracy.com home page (January 7, 2020), I have a comment on Wikipedia's article about Cloudflare. It is completely lame! Don't tell me to fix it, because I gave up on Wikipedia about 15 years ago. By the way, that "pirat...

Daniel Brandt

Midsize Jake wrote:I think it's fair to say that Mr. Brandt has been trying to put them out of business, more or less...

I'd be satisfied if they just took down their page about me. I'll still keep after Cloudflare if that happens, but I'd start to lose interest in ED.

Daniel Brandt

More on the situation with /24 blocks: https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/ipv4/waiting_list/ https://www.arin.net/reference/materials/abuse/ "ARIN is NOT able to investigate or stop unwanted network activity." ...and if you ever get your /24 block, you might have to deal with "advertising" your bl...

Daniel Brandt

More drama at Dramatica. There has been much cross-connecting and many referrals between two private /24 blocks during the last month as ED goes through rebirthing pains. One block is 103.114.191.0/24 which is owned by Joshua Moon . The other is 23.133.240.0/24 owned by Conrad Rockenhaus. There are ...

Daniel Brandt

There's more on Mr. Rockenhaus here: http://conradrockenhaus.net/

Daniel Brandt

So the only person who will have direct physical access to ED's servers is under federal indictment in the U.S. for something or other? This does not bode well for ED's future. Beyond that, I feel that choosing Sweden's ".SE" TLD is a risky choice. My impression is that they run a tight ship on that...

Daniel Brandt

The arguments in this thread assume that in order to fix Section 230, one has to take an "all or nothing" approach. There is a simple halfway measure, which was decreed by the highest court in the European Union several years ago. It is frequently referred to as the "right to be forgotten." If 230 w...

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ED will take a hit on their Google rankings by switching the TLD. I think it was way back in 2012 or so that they last used .SE site:encyclopediadramatica.rs -- About 71,200 results site:encyclopediadramatica.se -- About 8,980 results site:encyclopediadramatica.rs "daniel brandt" -- About 1,130 resu...

Daniel Brandt

Unfortunately, the docket doesn't provide any details about the medical condition he wanted better treatment for, so we might never know if God actually looked into the future, realized Mr. Rockenhaus would someday attempt to bring Encyclopedia Dramatica back online, and then decided to smite him p...

Daniel Brandt

Check out @eddotse on Twitter. This Rockenhaus guy keeps saying that he's "almost got it fixed." Encyclopedia Dramatica has been down now for about five weeks. Here's a post by @RockRockenhaus on October 2 on the @eddotse Twitter account: "Alright, here’s the deal. Sibin’s RAID failed. All data was ...

Daniel Brandt

I scanned the /wiki/Talk pages from this link and didn't find that photo. However, there are occasionally some photos on those pages (there's one of Essjay). I'm impressed by how much biographical information you can find on those Talk pages. It makes a lot of sense to keep them out of Google, wheth...

Daniel Brandt

Damn, why did Google pick up that photo when I specified in my search term that I only want links from "site:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk"? It wasn't there when I made that post a week ago. That is not a photo of me; it's a photo of a sexual predator . This is Encyclopedia Dramatica's idea of humor. A...

Daniel Brandt

I suspect that the WMF would rely on the exemptions provided under article 85 of the GDPR, for "journalistic purposes or the purpose of academic artistic or literary expression": https://gdpr-info.eu/art-85-gdpr/ As to the extent that the courts would consider this valid, I have no idea, though I s...

Daniel Brandt

The European Union's GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) went into effect yesterday. Since Wikimedia UK has an office in London, and the United Kingdom is one of the 28 member states in the EU, I believe that victims of malicious editing of Wikipedia who are located in the UK have standing to ...

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