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It's a congressional inquiry, the claim is that the editors are biased against Israel. https://www.commondreams.org/news/house-gop-investigates-wikipedia https:

• embedding-shape 11mo ago
  > the editors are biased against Israel But so what? Is that unlawful in the US somehow today? That sounds absolutely bananas to be honest, aren't people supposed to have "true" freedom of speech, including being allowed to be biased against or for Israel?
  • nsp 11mo ago
    It's not nationally illegal, and yes I would I agree that this seems in clear violation of freedom of speech. There have been some similar laws passed at the state level like this one in Texas https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/anti-israel-policies-are-anti-texas-policies https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/anti-israel-policies-are-ant... that have somehow held up in the courts
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  • jacquesm 11mo ago
    What is really absolutely bananas is to continue to believe that United States has true freedom of speech. There are so many limitations and exceptions that the USA scores worse than Europe where they don't have such a thing enshrined in their constitution (in so far as they have a constitution to begin with): https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/freedom-of-expression-index https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/freedom-of-expression-ind... Of course, you could be pedantic and say 'but freedom of expression isn't freedom of speech' but that would be precisely the kind of thing that continues to perpetrate the myth. A theoretical freedom on some narrow issue does not do much in competition with a much broader actual freedom. And that's the 2024 version, your guess about what the 2025 edition of that index looks like, I'm thinking not nearly as good for the USA. Blackmailing universities for starters.
  • ASalazarMX 11mo ago
    Yes, but please understand that the government of USA has a bias in favor of Israel that it needs to uphold. Why do you hate America and Freedom(TM)?
  • robocat 11mo ago
    https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/ Is a metalaw restricting the laws Congress can set. Freedom of speech seems to be commonly regarded as having a far wider scope than it actually does. IANAL.
    • dlubarov 11mo ago
      From a textualist standpoint you're right, but in practice the Supreme Court has expanded the First Amendment to prohibit government actions (besides just lawmaking) that would deter speech.
• asdefghyk 11mo ago
  RE ".... claim is that the editors are biased against Israel..." We ALL have Bias's
• asdefghyk 11mo ago
  Another thing to reaize is ... In war the first casualty is truth. I always think of what was claimed to happened in video "collateral murder" Where US killed several people , because a reporters telephoto lens was mistaked of a rocket launcher, when viewed from a few KM away - OR so we are told.
  • bigyabai 11mo ago
    Ascertaining the truth isn't made easier when one side massacres journalists and forbids free domestic reporting.