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==Wikipedia censorship==
==Wikipedia censorship==
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In January 2017, the [[Wikipedia]] entry for ''The People's Cube'' was deleted from Wikipedia.<ref>[https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265459/wikipedia-commissars-declare-peoples-cube-non-site-daniel-greenfield Wikipedia Commissars Declare People's Cube Non-Site]</ref><ref>[http://canadafreepress.com/article/wikipedia-deletes-the-peoples-cube-from-history# Wikipedia deletes The People’s Cube from history]</ref><ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/wikipedia_deletes_its_page_on_the_peoples_cube.html Wikipedia deletes its page on The People’s Cube], [[American Thinker]]</ref>
In January 2017, the [[Wikipedia]] entry for ''The People's Cube'' was deleted from Wikipedia.<ref>[https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265459/wikipedia-commissars-declare-peoples-cube-non-site-daniel-greenfield Wikipedia Commissars Declare People's Cube Non-Site]</ref><ref>[http://canadafreepress.com/article/wikipedia-deletes-the-peoples-cube-from-history# Wikipedia deletes The People’s Cube from history]</ref><ref>[http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/01/wikipedia_deletes_its_page_on_the_peoples_cube.html Wikipedia deletes its page on The People’s Cube], [[American Thinker]]</ref>
The site's owner, Oleg Atbashian, responded with the following comment:
<blockquote>The People's Cube entry has just been purged from Wikipedia. Congratulations, comrades. We are now officially a non-site populated by non-persons sharing non-thoughts and making non-jokes. It makes me feel right at home, back in the Soviet Union, where an invisible hand obstructed any of my efforts to manifest my existence. How liberating. No visibility means no responsibility. Out of sight, out of mind.<br />
As a linguistic experiment, scientists once had "out of sight, out of mind" translated into Russian and then back into English. The phrase returned as "invisible lunatics." That's who we are now. No need to think now, non-people. The Wiki-progs have turned us into invisible lunatics.<br />
First the Wiki-prog-editors defaced it by removing all the valid content and references, leaving only disparaging language. Then they voted to delete it altogether because there was no valid content and references left.<ref>[http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/the-people-s-cube-entry-has-just-been-deleted-from-wikipedia-t19170.html The People's Cube has just been deleted from Wikipedia]</ref></blockquote>
This episode highlights how easy it is for editors to abuse certain rules within Wikipedia in order to achieve a desired outcome.
==See also==
==See also==