▲ 115 ▼ Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding (theweek.com) submitted 1 year ago by melp@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org 34 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] happydoors@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children) Not to give them ideas but couldn’t he just fund his own fake Wikipedia clone? X-cylipedia or some shit? Claim it’s the truth and it’s very existence becomes a PR trap for the media who will cover it like hotcakes for free permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] decayedproton@beehaw.org 1 point 1 year ago If people with this mindset could be happy with just having their own thing, not polluted with the ideas of others, there would be no conflict. Unfortunately the mindset requires that there can't be other people in the world doing their own thing. permalink fedilink source parent [–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago Not to give them ideas but couldn’t he just fund his own fake Wikipedia clone? Isn't that basically what conservapedia is? (Link is not to the actual site, but rather to an article about them - not giving that shithole traffic) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] decayedproton@beehaw.org 1 point 1 year ago If people with this mindset could be happy with just having their own thing, not polluted with the ideas of others, there would be no conflict. Unfortunately the mindset requires that there can't be other people in the world doing their own thing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago Not to give them ideas but couldn’t he just fund his own fake Wikipedia clone? Isn't that basically what conservapedia is? (Link is not to the actual site, but rather to an article about them - not giving that shithole traffic) permalink fedilink source parent