• HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    A man in an orange sweatshirt rushed the stage. He was not in law enforcement, but a Wikipedia contributor on the conference’s “trust and safety team”: Richard Knipel, the City University of New York’s “Wikimedian-in-residence.” He grabbed the gunman from behind.

    Another Wikipedian on the trust and safety team, Andrew Lih, had been standing watch in the aisle and charged forward, too.

    Wikipedia’s “Trust and Safety” team does NOT fuck around!

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    NYT’s title makes it out as if he was going to shoot others. He was going to shoot himself.

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    I don’t get the idea of deliberately putting people in the jungle where there are no rules or morals or purpose out there… and then getting angry or surprised when they lash out at society.

    The reasons someone shouldn’t murder you live in society. X, Y, Z are why you don’t hurt others, and XYZ don’t exist in the jungle.

    We should only throw people out that are worth destroying, like Nazis.