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Russia plans alternative version of 'Wikipedia'
Reuters ^
| November 14, 2014
| Thomas Grove
Posted on 11/14/2014 11:16:51 AM PST by C19fan
Russia plans to create its own "Wikipedia" to ensure its citizens have access to more "detailed and reliable" information about their country, the presidential library said on Friday.
Citing Western threats, the Kremlin has asserted more control over the Internet this year in what critics call moves to censor the web, and has introduced more pro-Kremlin content similar to closely controlled state media such as television.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: putin; russia; wikipedia
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I am sure this Putin version of Wikipedia will be as reliable as the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:16:51 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
So will you get shot if you post about Putin’s KGB history and the fact that he is an authoritarian thug?
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:18:11 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:18:26 AM PST
by
beethovenfan
(If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
To: KarlInOhio
I am sure the Putin page will have him riding bare chested on the bear. :0
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:19:30 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Wikipedia isn’t slanted enough for the Russians?
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:19:33 AM PST
by
skeeter
To: C19fan
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:19:43 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: C19fan
lol.
Great Soviet Encyclopedia where they would mail you the rewritten history and expect you to remove and replace the old version.
lol
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:20:07 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: C19fan
It'll have a picture of Pootin buggering the bear ...
To: C19fan
Krocopedia? After “Krocodile” - satire and cartoons.
Izvestiapedia? After Izvestia, where there is no news.
Pravdapedia? After Pravda, where there is no truth.
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:25:08 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: C19fan; GeronL; MeganC
Russiapedia!!!
In Soviet Russia, Wiki edits you!
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11/14/2014 11:25:20 AM PST
by
KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
To: C19fan
Censorship has always been common in Russia, even long before the Soviet Union. It appears to be embedded in the culture.
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:29:56 AM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
11/14/2014 11:30:58 AM PST
by
MeganC
(It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
To: KC_Lion
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11/14/2014 11:31:07 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: PIF
That was a great Cold War joke ...
To: C19fan
... puti commons, where you can find pictures of Lenin with Trotsky airbrushed out.
To: C19fan
It might be good for math. Russia has a lot of mathematicians who are highly qualified. Not all of them are fluent English speakers.
Let Google Translate deal with it!
To: C19fan
I think once you start planning a wikipedia you’ve kind of lost what the whole thing is about.
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11/14/2014 11:51:00 AM PST
by
discostu
(YAHTZEE!)
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
Soviets used to alter images ... 
Will they do that again?
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11/14/2014 12:02:17 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
To: C19fan
IZ CДLLЗD NIKIPЗDIД!
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