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<!-- you can have any number of categories here --> [[Category:POTATO_IN_MY_LOGIC (pseudonym)]] [[Category:How Libertarian Ideas And Attitudes Are Spread]] [[Category:Wikipedia]] <!-- 1 URL must be followed by >= 0 Other URL and Old URL and 1 End URL.--> {{URL | url = https://www.reddit.com/r/EnoughLibertarianSpam/comments/2ap9md/widespread_libertarian_spam_on_wikipedia/}} <!-- {{Other URL | url = }} --> <!-- {{Old URL | url = }} --> {{End URL}} {{DES | des = A simple exploration of one layer of libertarian propaganda injected into Wikipedia. There is a great deal more. | show=}} <!-- insert wiki page text here --> <!-- DPL has problems with categories that have a single quote in them. Use these explicit workarounds. --> <!-- otherwise, we would use {{Links}} and {{Quotes}} --> {{List|title=Widespread "Libertarian" Spam on Wikipedia|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=Widespread "Libertarian" Spam on Wikipedia|quotes=true}} {{Text | I just found out about a useful tool on Wikipedia that allows for searching of external links for a particular site, mostly in citations and External Link sections of Wikipedia articles. This is an excellent way to find widespread "libertarian" spam on Wikipedia. Sure enough, mises.org shows up 1838 times, with the HTTPS version showing up an additional 45 times and lewrockwell.com showing up 40 times. Are all of these outgoing links to "libertarian" spam sites just on articles about Austrian "economics" and Austrian "economists"? Of course not! Here's a few articles that stood out to me, linking to revisions as I saw them in case things change: Rothbard is used as a citation about the Prussian education system in Kingdom of Prussia. It's footnote #8. The entire article on Anarchism in Iceland is full of "anarcho"-capitalist spam,1 complete with a link in the See Also section to the Libertarian Society of Iceland. The article on Democracy has an external link to an anti-democracy article on LewRockwell.com. Even the weekend is not safe from a "libertarian" opinion piece being used as a citation for facts about the weekend. It's footnote #6 here. Freakonomics has a summary of a mises.org article by Robert P. Murphy in the Criticism section. I've seen this sort of spam before, and it was also linking to an article by Robert P. Murphy. Modern Monetary Theory is similar, except this time Robert P. Murphy's criticism takes up the vast majority of the criticism, even though it is probably the least relevant criticism given the lack of relevance of Austrian "economics" in modern macroeconomics. Apparently a voluntary society is an "anarcho"-capitalist society.2 This is a very short article with a solely "libertarian" perspective on the issue and it even has Stefan Molyneux (writing on LewRockwell.com) as a source! In case you can't notice it, the Mises.org spam is at the very bottom, below the templates, which makes it poorly formatted spam. LewRockwell.com shows up twice in the references, and David D. Friedman shows up once. My favorite part there is the first sentence: "A voluntary society... is one in which all property... and all services... are provided through voluntary means, such as private or cooperative ownership." Apparently "private ownership" is "voluntary ownership" in the "libertarian" worldview. This could not be further from the truth in many historical examples where private ownership was forced on communities. EDIT: Hello, ancap brigade! You "anarcho"-capitalists pretend in your ideology to respect what you define as "private property", which would include privately owned websites and the rules set by the owners and management of those websites. Yet at the same time, you violate the rules of such websites. This was more than 90% upvoted before, and now it's 75% 72% upvoted. More than that, there are now posters from r/Anarcho_Capitalism posting here. Both voting and posting in linked articles are violations of reddit's rules, and are called "brigading". Congratulations for violating the rules of the privately owned reddit, "anarcho"-capitalists. I guess I should call you "anarcho"-"capitalists". EDIT 2: I am not allowed to reply in your subreddit because of reddit's anti-brigading rules, which I am respecting. If you would like to see some of my responses to your collective response, I posted them here. }}
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