• leg@leminal.space
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        20 days ago

        He who controls the flow of information controls the “truth”. This is an abusable lever of power. If someone is being silenced, they can effortlessly be branded as a liar, because the arbiters of truth leave no lies behind. Welcome to the game.

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          19 days ago

          Take screenshots. Use Internet Archive to prove it. There are so many options that would convince people that at least you tried, that it’s crazy.

          • Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            19 days ago

            Also, it’s not like Wikipedia deletes absolutely everything of an account because it’s blocked. If a page is deleted, the delete logs are there (iirc they can’t be modified). If content from a page is there, attribution requires the page history to be always present.