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Of course it is possible and I hope they eventually develop into a mature democracy. Point is, it has not happened yet.

Wikis were invented as a way, and are a good solution when the goal is, to crowdsource objective facts about the world.

The great thing about a wiki is that as long as one person once added any given fact, it is in the wiki.

On all contentious issues, by definition there are not too few people wanting to write about them, but instead there are too many, so this is why wikis are just not a suitable mechanism for writing about anything contentious: they're a solution to a nonexistent problem and there is no rational reason why truth about any given issue should be determined by "who has managed to edit the page last".

It doesn't really matter because Russians have never really had a mature democracy and so, I think, do not really know how it should/could be different. They are used to various forms of authoritarian rule; whether the leader is called a Tsar, or a General Secretary of the Communist Party, or a President of the Russian Federation doesn't make that much difference.

Adult here, have plenty of money (and growing) actually. Wish I could easily buy more time with that money, but the system of wage labor mostly just isn't flexible enough that there are many employers who will agree to "you get a few more weeks of vacation but a few thousand currency units less annual salary". If I could do that, I would.

I suspect that I am; I am not omnipresent and not aware of everything happening everywhere.

Am I right that the logic is approximately like this: FOSS is a left-wing anti-business cause, misinformation tends to help right-wing parties win elections, therefore it is compatible with FOSS values and principles to want to use the power that proprietary software developers have in order to censor ("stop the spread of") misinformation?

I thought Mozilla was a FOSS organization whose goal it was to defend an open Internet with free communication?

Here they are putting out a blog post that says "WhatsApp should use the power it has over its users to implement antifeatures that their users might not want and could remove if it were FOSS".

What the hell kind of world are we living in again?

Money can buy happiness if it is so much money that you don't ever have to work to earn money again. Lower than that, difficult; if I won (say) 20000 euros I wouldn't really know what to do with them because I would still have to work.

I just checked the Wikipedia articles and it seems that two of them have already had their birthday this year, five not.

That is why the explanation continues: "(other than pedantic exceptions due to calendar issues or timezone alterations, or someone dying before their birthday, or being born on a leap day, none of which apply in this case)".

Nearly all open source map apps (definitely OsmAnd and Organic Maps) use openstreetmap.org as a data source which is literally a wiki, ie. anyone can edit it. If there is a lot missing in your area on OSM, then please add those things yourself. It is exactly as good as volunteers made it.

This is why I also mentioned "a source we chose". On GNU/Linux package managers and F-Droid I can add additional package sources which can be managed by the developer.

Point is, it shouldn't be a thing that Apple or Google or anyone has this kind of power.

App stores were a mistake. We used to get software from its developer or from a source we chose. Now that we expect there to be a central app store, it can be used for censorship.