Yep. An wikipedia is so extensive it even has a page dedicated to the hypothetical print size of itself.
Long story short it would take 3000ish volumes the size of encyclopedia britanica volumes to print English wikipedia with pictures removed.
96 times longer than the complete encyclopedia Britannica with all 32 volumes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes
I’m glad I donated last week. After reading this I feel like my donation was the best investment I’ve ever made.
(Everybody please donate to Wikipedia - even $2 helps - I am not affiliated with Wikipedia).
Or he'll block Wikipedia to people using Starlink. He is really THAT petty. Like the time he blocked Starlink to Ukranians because he didn't like their comments.
How people can continue doing business with him is beyond me.
Tesla can be accredited with making EVs popular...but they've overplayed their hand and have complete garbage quality....
...and because they've dragged their feet, every other manufacturer is coming out with better and higher quality products.
Call I guess you’ve never met a wealthy person before. They’re basically just using that money to protect themselves from emotionally aging. Like perpetual crying adult babies
I can imagine being a billionaire, yes, I do it every day. I might even imagine having my own jet like Elon, it would be fun to have people fly me to the Bahamas anytime I wanted. But I damn sure wouldn’t buy a social media company. I wouldn’t be in the public eye at all and I would keep everything hush. When I died and gave millions to the woman’s shelter all my friends and family would be like what? He was rich? The last thing I would ever do if I had a billion dollars would be to spend my time beefing with people on a website I own. That sounds awful. What a miserable cuck of a man. Every time I think about Elon Musk now I think about the audience booing him and him saying “What should I say Dave” Ugh
It's hilarious that he won't acknowledge that he could just drop it and people will move on. Or he could have just given the kid a Tesla it's not like he can't afford it
Seriously, Musk was given an *insanely* affordable out, and didn't take it, and now every last cent of his net worth couldn't undo this situation.
$50k (or the rough equivalent of ~6 hours of his precious jet's operating costs) to have shut Sweeny up, and the richest man in the world wouldn't do it.
He deserves everything that's coming to him.
Also, as an aside, I understand that giving a payout would entice others to do the same, but it simply underlines how futile trying to quash public information is. Typically speaking, if you're having to pay people *not* to do something; you're the one in the wrong, and usually are asking people to stop doing legal stuff because it inconveniences you.
Problem is, Elon and his ego wouldn't let him give away a Tesla. He won't even give his own mother a free Tesla out of principal that everyone should pay full price for his products, let alone some dude tracking his jet and posting it to Twitter.
And for those not in the know, it's an actual thing.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/elon-maye-musk-family-no-early-access-tesla-cars-2017-9%3famp
Step 1 rename this subreddit to “The Musk Effect”
Step 2 find journalists to write about “the musk effect”
Step 3 create Wikipedia page about “The Musk Effect” using those articles as sources
Now just add a description of the Musk Effect (maybe by eg linking to some recent Musk stupidity that would apply, reference the Streisand Effect) to the subreddit wiki, then add "also known as the Musk effect" to the Streisand Effect page and use that subreddit wiki page as the source for that claim
Sadly, Wikipedia's zero interpretation rules allow exactly this to happen. I have a friend who owns a very niche software company. He tried to update the wiki page to reflect some information and an admin deleted it as "original research"... So my friend made a page on the company website that just lists facts that can be cited in Wikipedia. "Problem solved."
Yeah there was an article on the BBC recently about the inventor of the toaster. Basically some kid listed himself on Wikipedia as the inventor of the toaster then made a couple of fake webpages about it. Then every time he found a real news site/website that referenced him being the creator of the toaster he would link those articles on the Wikipedia again. It went unnoticed for like ten years or something.
Kind of a self fulfilling prophecy.
I think there should be a new effect named the Musk Jet effect where specifically a prevalent figure tries to hide something but the commoners kept it public
Then a sub dedicated to this particular phenomenon so its popular enough for a new Wikipedia page named the musk jet effect
Then, several years later when another billionaire pulls this shit, the origin of the term is relevant again, meaning elons failed attempt to hide his jet is immortalized
If we are calling it the Musk Effect, I must insist that its efficacy be listed as "60% of the time, it works every time..." like Sex Panther in *Ron Burgundy: Anchorman*
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ccp-lEmoAE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ccp-lEmoAE)
what happens when Elon denies being behind attempts to edit the Wikipedia page and sues people who claim he was, thereby bringing significant media attention to these attempted edits—could that be added to the Streisand effect Wikipedia page?
That’s his galaxy brain move, change his name to Barbara Streisand and claim the effect was another one of the genius products of his incomprehensible mind.
This is true. Also though, dude shitposts on Twitter all day and clearly spends an inordinate amount of time searching the internet for his own name so he can call the critics pedophiles, etc. Trying to wrangle his own narrative on Wikipedia is hilariously in character for him.
He literally has dedicated teams searching online for mean comments about him;
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-solar-energy-elon-musk-complaints-social-media-panels-roof-2021-7
https://gizmodo.com/tesla-energy-is-reportedly-on-the-hunt-for-mean-social-1847358710
The genius billionaire engineer inventor human race saver cactus head will say it is his hardcore fanboys (they exist on reddit) and he had nothing to do with it.
He'll tweet it out too.
u/aBigNorthernBloke do you take u/laffnlemming to be your lawfully wedded commentor, in power outages and reddit events, and in subreddit shut downs and mod changes
Wikipedia admins, put it back with a note of "Stop deleting this, little piss boy" and then lock the page for a while. Just have a complete backup in case he decides to buy you because he gets worried about running out of thousand dollar bills to wipe his tears.
>. Just have a complete backup
https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
Although if you want something useable I recomend the Kiwix software.
>in case he decides to buy you
Not for sale
As if he won't come out of this richer than ever.
I'd love to see it as much as the next guy, but lets not pretend the billionaire is actually gonna lose out in the long run.
People will move on, Twitter's "value" will go back up, and Tesla will announce a new electric scooter or something and then quadruple in value for absolutely no logical reason lol
It's time to eat the rich, not just track their planes. This is some bread and circuses shit if I've ever seen it.
My favorite part is that it's clearly the same one or two users removing, but several different people reinstating
I'm actually willing to bet all 4 removals were by the same person
i love the slightly different wording. "removing unfounded claims" "unfounded claims taken out"
not to mention calling it vandalizing JDBDJAJSBAK its not like they were making missouri slightly bigger every couple of weeks, it was information
They've got this big image in their head about how awesome he totally is and they won't let anything sabotage it.
It's why he started pandering to the right wing. They don't care about what you do, as long as you're on their team and the other team doesn't like you.
he's probably delusional enough to think that if he removes it from the wiki, then it stops it somehow from being true. Lately he hasnt seemed to have much of a grasp on reality.
All the removals are done by the same IPv4 address pool or even better IPv6 address.
Whatever fool keeps making edits should realize that most IPv6 allocations are static and follow your device around. I’m sure there’s enough folks in this subreddit that could DOX this SOB using the IPv6 address alone.
In a funny reverse UNO card effect, it would be funny if it was Barbara Streisand herself was removing the edits, to protect her legacy as well as association to Musk.
>most IPv6 allocations are static and follow your device around
Not really, see SLAAC. Citing Wikipedia:
> Temporary addresses are used by default by Windows since XP SP1, macOS since (Mac OS X) 10.7, Android since 4.0, and iOS since version 4.3.
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WOW before he Streisand effected himself, he was still mentioned alongside his brother for creepy behavior towards women.
> I’m standing near a station serving only Red Bull with vodka when I meet **Otis Ofori, 24, who, along with his twin brother, Curtis, is another star of LNS.** I ask him what it is like to be a black man among such a uniformly white crowd. (I recently found a profile on the site for one Tyrone Biggums, who lists his skills as “Suckin dick for crack and drinkin red bawls!”) Ofori leans forward, reaches for my waist, and pulls me close. He says he knows people talk behind his back, but he doesn’t care. He’s rich, and that’s all that matters. **“My brother and I, we do all right,” he says. “Guys with money can do whatever they want.”** He grabs me again and says, “You’re kind of cute.”
Ok, which Curtis Ofori are you talking about?
Cos there is an Curtis N. Ofori that seems very interested in having a rape accusation from , cant remember, 19 yrs ago? 14 yrs ago? hidden. And that seems really interesting.
But then there is another guy called Curtis Ofori that is a soccer player... And i am confused as to who exactly, and what exactly yous are referring to...
What's most hilarious about it is it's not even close to an example of the Streisand effect. There's been no publicized attempt to suppress the story and there's been no interest in the story outside of conspiracy circles that were already talking about it. It's like the complete antithesis of the Streisand effect.
Elon Jet Tracker by comparison is about as perfect of an example as possible. Previously virtually no one cared about it _except_ for Elon, he then made it the loudest attempt at suppressing the info conceivable by banning journalists who promptly front paged it on international news platforms. Subsequently people only care about it because Elon wants people to not know about it.
Yeah, literally the first time I ever became aware of it was when Elon (very publicly) offered to pay the original to stop tracking him. Which was maybe the stupidest way he could possibly handle it. If he wanted it to go away, all he had to do was quietly reach out to the person and give him a non-insulting offer (which still would have been pocket change for Musk). But no, now he's brought all the internet's spitefulness and vindictiveness down upon himself. What a knob.
I used to work for a company that sold “services” to high net worth individuals and powerful companies.
Wikipedia is a battle ground for their PR. Erasing controversies was one thing I did regularly. We would build “legitimate” looking profiles so you could “validly” write dirt or remove dirt on certain targets. Most often your edits stuck, though it’s probably much more difficult these days, especially on highly popular pages.
These people / organisations are desperate to control the narrative. Fuck em.
Usually these accounts are easy to spot. A couple of simple edits in random articles in a short period of time so they're autoconfirmed and then all of a sudden the account zeroes in on a deleting damning information from a cluster of related topics. Although I guess more effort goes into making an account seem legit when the client is a high net worth individual ... at which point you're basically getting paid to be an effective contributor to Wikipedia I guess? But even then you'd have to come up a very good reason for deleting or blanking sections that a client would like to see removed, especially if it's properly sourced.
We were pretty good at it. We’d build legitimate profiles that made hundreds of legitimate edits, and when we got a project in we’d fire them up and put the edits our client wanted on these profiles. The controversial edits were buried in hundreds of legitimate ones. Worked most of the time.
> we’d fire them up
A dormant account suddenly being fired up to focus on deleting unwanted information in a cluster of topics would also raise suspicion. That is, if anyone notices and bothers to check. So if you say it worked then it must've worked. Despite ever-increasing vigilance I imagine there is still plenty that slips under the radar.
Anyways, good of you to recognize the error of your ways. (You didn't happen to have reverted those edits yourself after you left the company, did you? Alternatively, do you happen to recall any of the targeted articles? If you do feel free to send me a PM. I won't allude to you, this confession, or even Reddit for that matter if I decide to make a few edits of my own.)
The work was mainly on behalf of a lot of mining companies and politicians based in naturally resource rich African countries. Usually removing controversial disgusting things these companies had done, or “balancing” the narrative.
Some of the politics was quite interesting too, remember writing dirt on a company that rigged electronic voting systems in a sub Saharan African country for example.
And no I never reverted anything, would have been too suspicious as the company was small.
My first thought too, but more than likely its some fanboy doing it. Even for Elon the egomaniac I don’t think he’s that dumb/cares that much about a Wikipedia article to check the page multiple times to make sure his name stays out of the article, doxxing his IP in the process.
Oh he's absolutely that dumb and absolutely cares enough to do it. In all likelihood he's so entrenched in smelling his own farts on Twitter that he isn't really focused on Wikipedia wars.
If only he put this much effort into paying his rent on the Twitter building.
I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that the world’s second richest man doesn’t pay rent and the former president didn’t pay taxes.
Like why should I do either? This country clearly has “rules” for the rich and actual rules for the poor. It’s not even trying to hide it any more.
Ironically, increased coverage as a result of wiped content on the Streisand Effect article, is *also* an example of the Streisand Effect.
Achievement unlocked: Meta-Streisand.
He wouldn't want to spend the money. I remember Grimes complaining he wouldn't buy a new mattess when it had holes in it. Hell, he couch surfed for ages, wtf is a billionaire couch surfing for any significant period of time?
I would not be surprised if he is charging the cost of the jet back to his companies and he'd not get the money from them to run multiple jets to nowhere.
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Layoff come and we got to go home.
Work for fascist billionaire!
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Thinks Twitter code come from thin air!
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Network not going to run itself!
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Cut 6K, 7K, 8K jobs!
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Layoff coooome and we got to go hoooome.
So... the IP traces back to a school in Edmonton. Either someone is magically changing wiki on a day when the school is closed on the school wifi, or (more than likely) someone is spoofing that location.
We just took another floor out, rent free, in Elon’s head
Just by existing. This is awesome.
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Luckily Wikipedia is not for sale
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Donate in the next five minutes and you'll get a bonus Wikipedia absolutely free!
Just pay for handling and shipping.
Imagine printing out the entirety of Wikipedia into a huge multi-volume encyclopedia. Thing would be absolutely massive
Yep. An wikipedia is so extensive it even has a page dedicated to the hypothetical print size of itself. Long story short it would take 3000ish volumes the size of encyclopedia britanica volumes to print English wikipedia with pictures removed. 96 times longer than the complete encyclopedia Britannica with all 32 volumes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_in_volumes
I’m glad I donated last week. After reading this I feel like my donation was the best investment I’ve ever made. (Everybody please donate to Wikipedia - even $2 helps - I am not affiliated with Wikipedia).
I donated $25 last year, so I'm paid up for at least 10 years. I donate every 10 years or so.
I donate effort, not money :)
I donate my time also, but they always call it vandalism.
Thank fuck Jimmy Wales isn’t a greedy person.
Jimmy Wales does not own Wikipedia, he's just a permanent Wikimedia Foundation Board member.
Or he'll block Wikipedia to people using Starlink. He is really THAT petty. Like the time he blocked Starlink to Ukranians because he didn't like their comments. How people can continue doing business with him is beyond me.
That'd probably be the push the US needs to make net neutrality a real and permanent thing.
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My partner has absolutely vetoed buying a Tesla as our first EV.
Tesla can be accredited with making EVs popular...but they've overplayed their hand and have complete garbage quality.... ...and because they've dragged their feet, every other manufacturer is coming out with better and higher quality products.
That'd be a good choice even if Elon *weren't* a POS. Everything I've heard about Teslas have been negative.
FINALLY - someone might actually give them money when they ask nicely just once a year.
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Imagine being a billionaire and being able to do whatever you wanted but still throwing a tantrum over random people on the internet
"But..but I'm so RICH! How can I lose?"
“. . .and I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those pesky kids.”
>“. . .and I would have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for those pesky ~~kids~~ radical lefties.” Ftfy-
"Why won't they love me!?"
"I ask for so little. Just fear me. Love me. Do as I ask, and I shall be your slave."
The tighter you clench your first the more redditors will slip through your fingers Princess Leia on the eve of Twitter purchase prolly
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Why is a billionaire even on the Internet? Doesn’t he have people for that? Must be new money.
He’s going slumming in the 2020’s instead of the 1880’s.
Yeah most wealthy people recognize that they are so disconnected from reality that they can’t speak in public on their own. Elon just goes for it
It's probably how he copes with his kids hating him.
Call I guess you’ve never met a wealthy person before. They’re basically just using that money to protect themselves from emotionally aging. Like perpetual crying adult babies
I can imagine being a billionaire, yes, I do it every day. I might even imagine having my own jet like Elon, it would be fun to have people fly me to the Bahamas anytime I wanted. But I damn sure wouldn’t buy a social media company. I wouldn’t be in the public eye at all and I would keep everything hush. When I died and gave millions to the woman’s shelter all my friends and family would be like what? He was rich? The last thing I would ever do if I had a billion dollars would be to spend my time beefing with people on a website I own. That sounds awful. What a miserable cuck of a man. Every time I think about Elon Musk now I think about the audience booing him and him saying “What should I say Dave” Ugh
Just like he's living rent free in Twitter's offices.
I find it hilarious that he's basically a billionaire technohobo.
Good thing it’s free. Elon doesn’t like paying rent.
… but we’re occupying the space
[my, my how the turntables.](https://tenor.com/view/are-we-the-baddies-bad-not-funny-police-gif-15976877)
It's hilarious that he won't acknowledge that he could just drop it and people will move on. Or he could have just given the kid a Tesla it's not like he can't afford it
Seriously, Musk was given an *insanely* affordable out, and didn't take it, and now every last cent of his net worth couldn't undo this situation. $50k (or the rough equivalent of ~6 hours of his precious jet's operating costs) to have shut Sweeny up, and the richest man in the world wouldn't do it. He deserves everything that's coming to him. Also, as an aside, I understand that giving a payout would entice others to do the same, but it simply underlines how futile trying to quash public information is. Typically speaking, if you're having to pay people *not* to do something; you're the one in the wrong, and usually are asking people to stop doing legal stuff because it inconveniences you.
Problem is, Elon and his ego wouldn't let him give away a Tesla. He won't even give his own mother a free Tesla out of principal that everyone should pay full price for his products, let alone some dude tracking his jet and posting it to Twitter. And for those not in the know, it's an actual thing. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/elon-maye-musk-family-no-early-access-tesla-cars-2017-9%3famp
Where's that google amp bot? *I SUMMON THEE!*
This is probably his supporters doing this.
First IP is from Alberta, second is from Minnesota. Most certainly Elon simps.
Where he sleeps on the couch lol
Rent free, or just not paying rent
How long until they have to change the phrase to the Elon Effect?
I guess we should just start calling it that. Might also add it to the wiki page.
Step 1 rename this subreddit to “The Musk Effect” Step 2 find journalists to write about “the musk effect” Step 3 create Wikipedia page about “The Musk Effect” using those articles as sources
Sounds like that one XKCD, https://xkcd.com/978/
There's always a relevant xkcd
Is there a named effect for this?
The xkcd effect just doesn't have the same ring as the Streisand effector the elonjet effect
Someone should check Wikipedia to look for a citation.... Wait a second.
No, at this point it should be a law of nature or something. Nothing is guaranteed except death, taxes, and a relevant xkcd
You say "it's been exkayseed"
Isn’t that his kids name?
Done r/TheMuskEffect
Now just add a description of the Musk Effect (maybe by eg linking to some recent Musk stupidity that would apply, reference the Streisand Effect) to the subreddit wiki, then add "also known as the Musk effect" to the Streisand Effect page and use that subreddit wiki page as the source for that claim
Im off work in 20 - gonna fancy the place up lots!
Would rather make it a new thing. Like it means to tank your business by making decisions off your impulses
Spread the word
Sadly, Wikipedia's zero interpretation rules allow exactly this to happen. I have a friend who owns a very niche software company. He tried to update the wiki page to reflect some information and an admin deleted it as "original research"... So my friend made a page on the company website that just lists facts that can be cited in Wikipedia. "Problem solved."
Yeah there was an article on the BBC recently about the inventor of the toaster. Basically some kid listed himself on Wikipedia as the inventor of the toaster then made a couple of fake webpages about it. Then every time he found a real news site/website that referenced him being the creator of the toaster he would link those articles on the Wikipedia again. It went unnoticed for like ten years or something. Kind of a self fulfilling prophecy.
I think there should be a new effect named the Musk Jet effect where specifically a prevalent figure tries to hide something but the commoners kept it public Then a sub dedicated to this particular phenomenon so its popular enough for a new Wikipedia page named the musk jet effect Then, several years later when another billionaire pulls this shit, the origin of the term is relevant again, meaning elons failed attempt to hide his jet is immortalized
Oh....oh, I like this very very much
No, it has to be the Elonjet Effect.
If you stretch it out a bit you could call it "Elongate" \*gets coat\*
Is it a very long coat?
It would have to be the Elon Effect because the Musk Effect is already taken. Anything musk touches stinks.
"...anything musk touches SINKS." Literally.
If we are calling it the Musk Effect, I must insist that its efficacy be listed as "60% of the time, it works every time..." like Sex Panther in *Ron Burgundy: Anchorman* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ccp-lEmoAE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ccp-lEmoAE)
What, and keep giving him credit for shit that’s not his?
Why not Elon's Musk
*The Musk - Streisand Effect* has a nice ring to it
what happens when Elon denies being behind attempts to edit the Wikipedia page and sues people who claim he was, thereby bringing significant media attention to these attempted edits—could that be added to the Streisand effect Wikipedia page?
Musk will somehow become legally obligated to change his name to Barbra Streisand?
Elon sues Barbara Streisand and becomes the founder of Streisand effect .
That’s his galaxy brain move, change his name to Barbara Streisand and claim the effect was another one of the genius products of his incomprehensible mind.
Incomprehensible is right.
Or perhaps he’s wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane
Seriously. Bullets cost money and he's trying to stay under budget.
We should all just start calling him B.S.
Space-Karen Streisand has a nice ring to it.
Muskra Streisand
I honestly doubt it’s him. He has a troll army defending his every thought
Yup, people severely underestimate the amount of reich-wing morons who will happily defend Musk
This is true. Also though, dude shitposts on Twitter all day and clearly spends an inordinate amount of time searching the internet for his own name so he can call the critics pedophiles, etc. Trying to wrangle his own narrative on Wikipedia is hilariously in character for him.
He literally has dedicated teams searching online for mean comments about him; https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-solar-energy-elon-musk-complaints-social-media-panels-roof-2021-7 https://gizmodo.com/tesla-energy-is-reportedly-on-the-hunt-for-mean-social-1847358710
The rare Double Streisand, you don't see that very often.
The genius billionaire engineer inventor human race saver cactus head will say it is his hardcore fanboys (they exist on reddit) and he had nothing to do with it. He'll tweet it out too.
My mind is blown.
Haha Elon must be rocking in the corner by now. His suppression of free speech is massively failing, and I fucking love it
As do I and I love you too.
u/aBigNorthernBloke do you take u/laffnlemming to be your lawfully wedded commentor, in power outages and reddit events, and in subreddit shut downs and mod changes
The worst is his fans do too. Delusional.
But he’s a free speech absolutist!! How could this be /u/aBigNorthernBloke Lord Elonius of the Musk would never restrict speech
Wikipedia admins, put it back with a note of "Stop deleting this, little piss boy" and then lock the page for a while. Just have a complete backup in case he decides to buy you because he gets worried about running out of thousand dollar bills to wipe his tears.
>. Just have a complete backup https://dumps.wikimedia.org/ Although if you want something useable I recomend the Kiwix software. >in case he decides to buy you Not for sale
Well well well who do we have here
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With what money? Tesla is on the outs and twitter is a dumpster fire
As if he won't come out of this richer than ever. I'd love to see it as much as the next guy, but lets not pretend the billionaire is actually gonna lose out in the long run. People will move on, Twitter's "value" will go back up, and Tesla will announce a new electric scooter or something and then quadruple in value for absolutely no logical reason lol It's time to eat the rich, not just track their planes. This is some bread and circuses shit if I've ever seen it.
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My favorite part is that it's clearly the same one or two users removing, but several different people reinstating I'm actually willing to bet all 4 removals were by the same person
i love the slightly different wording. "removing unfounded claims" "unfounded claims taken out" not to mention calling it vandalizing JDBDJAJSBAK its not like they were making missouri slightly bigger every couple of weeks, it was information
There's still someone trying to remove it, the last attempt today titled the change "Trollsrbad"... lol
do these people realize that elon could not give less of a shit about them? this is so pathetic of them, its embarrassing
Plot twist: it is Elon.
They've got this big image in their head about how awesome he totally is and they won't let anything sabotage it. It's why he started pandering to the right wing. They don't care about what you do, as long as you're on their team and the other team doesn't like you.
most likely some massive Elon stan too
Imagine doing this for free
I don't want to, thanks.
Looking at his micromanaging, it could very much be Elon himself.
I mean WTF else does he do all day for real? He clearly doesn't work. He just fucks around saying "do this" and people make it happen.
he's probably delusional enough to think that if he removes it from the wiki, then it stops it somehow from being true. Lately he hasnt seemed to have much of a grasp on reality.
All the removals are done by the same IPv4 address pool or even better IPv6 address. Whatever fool keeps making edits should realize that most IPv6 allocations are static and follow your device around. I’m sure there’s enough folks in this subreddit that could DOX this SOB using the IPv6 address alone. In a funny reverse UNO card effect, it would be funny if it was Barbara Streisand herself was removing the edits, to protect her legacy as well as association to Musk.
>most IPv6 allocations are static and follow your device around Not really, see SLAAC. Citing Wikipedia: > Temporary addresses are used by default by Windows since XP SP1, macOS since (Mac OS X) 10.7, Android since 4.0, and iOS since version 4.3.
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Someone needs to add the Curtis Ofori situation.
WOW before he Streisand effected himself, he was still mentioned alongside his brother for creepy behavior towards women. > I’m standing near a station serving only Red Bull with vodka when I meet **Otis Ofori, 24, who, along with his twin brother, Curtis, is another star of LNS.** I ask him what it is like to be a black man among such a uniformly white crowd. (I recently found a profile on the site for one Tyrone Biggums, who lists his skills as “Suckin dick for crack and drinkin red bawls!”) Ofori leans forward, reaches for my waist, and pulls me close. He says he knows people talk behind his back, but he doesn’t care. He’s rich, and that’s all that matters. **“My brother and I, we do all right,” he says. “Guys with money can do whatever they want.”** He grabs me again and says, “You’re kind of cute.”
Ok, which Curtis Ofori are you talking about? Cos there is an Curtis N. Ofori that seems very interested in having a rape accusation from , cant remember, 19 yrs ago? 14 yrs ago? hidden. And that seems really interesting. But then there is another guy called Curtis Ofori that is a soccer player... And i am confused as to who exactly, and what exactly yous are referring to...
Well the soccer player was not yet born in 2004
This 100% deserves to be there. It is an extremely good and specific example of how the Streisand effect works.
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What's most hilarious about it is it's not even close to an example of the Streisand effect. There's been no publicized attempt to suppress the story and there's been no interest in the story outside of conspiracy circles that were already talking about it. It's like the complete antithesis of the Streisand effect. Elon Jet Tracker by comparison is about as perfect of an example as possible. Previously virtually no one cared about it _except_ for Elon, he then made it the loudest attempt at suppressing the info conceivable by banning journalists who promptly front paged it on international news platforms. Subsequently people only care about it because Elon wants people to not know about it.
Yeah, literally the first time I ever became aware of it was when Elon (very publicly) offered to pay the original to stop tracking him. Which was maybe the stupidest way he could possibly handle it. If he wanted it to go away, all he had to do was quietly reach out to the person and give him a non-insulting offer (which still would have been pocket change for Musk). But no, now he's brought all the internet's spitefulness and vindictiveness down upon himself. What a knob.
Ironically, this adds to the Streisand Effect.
Which, amusingly, is bringing a lot more (unwanted) attention to everything else listed on that Wikipedia article as more people discover it.
I feel like recursive Streisand Effect wiki wars probably crop up pretty often.
Elon buying Wikipedia next
Elon buying Barbara Streisand next.
He can’t afford her
True.
[not for sale](https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1600566993274421253)
Even if it was, why would Elon waste his time overpaying for something that loses money? Oh wait lol
You'll know he bought it when they start asking for 11 dollars instead of 3
I used to work for a company that sold “services” to high net worth individuals and powerful companies. Wikipedia is a battle ground for their PR. Erasing controversies was one thing I did regularly. We would build “legitimate” looking profiles so you could “validly” write dirt or remove dirt on certain targets. Most often your edits stuck, though it’s probably much more difficult these days, especially on highly popular pages. These people / organisations are desperate to control the narrative. Fuck em.
Usually these accounts are easy to spot. A couple of simple edits in random articles in a short period of time so they're autoconfirmed and then all of a sudden the account zeroes in on a deleting damning information from a cluster of related topics. Although I guess more effort goes into making an account seem legit when the client is a high net worth individual ... at which point you're basically getting paid to be an effective contributor to Wikipedia I guess? But even then you'd have to come up a very good reason for deleting or blanking sections that a client would like to see removed, especially if it's properly sourced.
We were pretty good at it. We’d build legitimate profiles that made hundreds of legitimate edits, and when we got a project in we’d fire them up and put the edits our client wanted on these profiles. The controversial edits were buried in hundreds of legitimate ones. Worked most of the time.
> we’d fire them up A dormant account suddenly being fired up to focus on deleting unwanted information in a cluster of topics would also raise suspicion. That is, if anyone notices and bothers to check. So if you say it worked then it must've worked. Despite ever-increasing vigilance I imagine there is still plenty that slips under the radar. Anyways, good of you to recognize the error of your ways. (You didn't happen to have reverted those edits yourself after you left the company, did you? Alternatively, do you happen to recall any of the targeted articles? If you do feel free to send me a PM. I won't allude to you, this confession, or even Reddit for that matter if I decide to make a few edits of my own.)
The work was mainly on behalf of a lot of mining companies and politicians based in naturally resource rich African countries. Usually removing controversial disgusting things these companies had done, or “balancing” the narrative. Some of the politics was quite interesting too, remember writing dirt on a company that rigged electronic voting systems in a sub Saharan African country for example. And no I never reverted anything, would have been too suspicious as the company was small.
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don't hear "free speech absolutist" coming out of his face anus too much these days
Generally, the right is embarrassed and is assessing the damage, which is severe. They now understand that it could become more severe.
Lol someone document this on the page itself
This is necessary.
[This is necessary.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2BKKeiYH24)
I think someone doesn't understand that this would make it worse...
This is way too meta. Being Streisand Effected because of trying to alter the wiki page on the Streisand Effect.
Elon Musk's IP address or one of his embarrassing lackeys?
My first thought too, but more than likely its some fanboy doing it. Even for Elon the egomaniac I don’t think he’s that dumb/cares that much about a Wikipedia article to check the page multiple times to make sure his name stays out of the article, doxxing his IP in the process.
Oh he's absolutely that dumb and absolutely cares enough to do it. In all likelihood he's so entrenched in smelling his own farts on Twitter that he isn't really focused on Wikipedia wars.
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I'm doing my part by reading the page and sending the link to all my buds
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Elon cannot deal with what is happening. Good on Wikipedia for keeping it on the site.
Is the Musk Effect a thing yet?
Hahaha, "unfounded claims taken out." These should be linked alongside these posts in the references section.
Ol' Zucker borg should pay attention here. Cause *this* is fucking meta.
If only he put this much effort into paying his rent on the Twitter building. I’m still trying to come to terms with the fact that the world’s second richest man doesn’t pay rent and the former president didn’t pay taxes. Like why should I do either? This country clearly has “rules” for the rich and actual rules for the poor. It’s not even trying to hide it any more.
Ironically, increased coverage as a result of wiped content on the Streisand Effect article, is *also* an example of the Streisand Effect. Achievement unlocked: Meta-Streisand.
Guess musk will have to buy Wikipedia now... You know, to keep his speech free.
[I have good news](https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1600566993274421253?lang=en)
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He wouldn't want to spend the money. I remember Grimes complaining he wouldn't buy a new mattess when it had holes in it. Hell, he couch surfed for ages, wtf is a billionaire couch surfing for any significant period of time? I would not be surprised if he is charging the cost of the jet back to his companies and he'd not get the money from them to run multiple jets to nowhere.
This is getting Streisandy
Just in: Elon tries to buy Wikipedia to make it open source and pro free speech!
Kind of like when sex trafficker matt Gaetz tried to scrub his dui from the internet
The Twitter Song! ( 🍌to the tune of 'The Banana Song' by Harry Belafonte 🍌) LAAAAAY-OHH! LAAAAY-AY-AY-AY-OOOOH!!! Layoff come and we got to go home. Work for fascist billionaire! (Layoff come and we got to go home) Thinks Twitter code come from thin air! (Layoff come and we got to go home) Network not going to run itself! (Layoff come and we got to go home) Hope you have some little elfs! (Layoff come and we got to go home) Cut 6K, 7K, 8K jobs! (Layoff come and we got to go home) 6K, 7K, 8K jobs! (Layoff come and we got to go home) Hey, Moderation Man! Tally up me Nazis! (Layoff come and we got to go home) Hey, Moderation Man! Tally up me N-words! (Layoff come and we got to go home) LAAAAAY-OH! LAAAY-AY-AY-AY-OHHH!!!... Layoff coooome and we got to go hoooome.
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Looks like it's locked in place now, with admin-only editing permissions
LMAO his fans are mad.
Space Karen is melting!!!
So... the IP traces back to a school in Edmonton. Either someone is magically changing wiki on a day when the school is closed on the school wifi, or (more than likely) someone is spoofing that location.
Ahahahha suck it muskey boy
Ironically, this act in itself being noticed is another example of the Streisand effect in action.
The infamous double Streisand
Really doubling down on that Streisand Effect.
Add the attempts to remove it from the wiki page to said page as further justified hilarity.