Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world nadram @lemmy.world 8 mo. ago

Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia

www.theguardian.com Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him | Zoe Williams

The X owner has no time for a democratic experiment dedicated to knowledge. He would rather yell puerile ‘jokes’ into the ether, writes Zoe Williams

Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.

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All of the wrong people have money.
Wikipedia should counter by offering Elon $4 to go towards paying off his massive hole from buying Twitter. 😂
Downvote Musk spam.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.
We already have Dickopedia elon, it's called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
wikipedia foundation's financials are solid, stable, and healthy.

how's twitter doing lately, elon?
Indicator 9,876,872,820,111 that that fucker has more money than anyone should ever have.
So he’s offering that money to name it after himself?

I’m not even clicking on that link, I never click on stuff with that turd’s name on the headline, just wanted to make the joke.
Take Money.

Re-Name to Dickipedia.

Re-Name back to Wikipedia.

Laugh about Musk.

Profit.
More evidence to support taxing the fuck out of billionaires. No one needs that much money.
I am so, so tired of this tedious man child.
I'm starting to think this guy isn't very wise about spending his money.
Guillotine that nazi fuck. Way past time for some French revolution.
He's trying to distract from the probe into Tesla's range. It's working.
That man child has the emotions and humour of a little kid, I swear.
Never donated to Wikipedia before... this shit changed that in a hurry.
Maybe Elon should just donate a billion because he supposedly cares about free information so much?
I offer Elon $1 to change his name to Doge McCumStain. I hope he will accept my generous offer.
Why do we let this man-child have billions of dollars?
He paid 44bln and hasn't even changed twitter.com yet. Don't expect him to pay up.
To everyone thinking Wikipedia should go with the deal and then change the name back.

It's like taking money for doing d*ck tatoo on forehead and then doing laser removal, humiliation. No foundation or company should show they are craving for money by doing anything someone would pay for.
Sounds like a good idea for a wikipedia page. Put Elon's picture on it.
What a fool. Why do we let the worst people take the most from us?
For shits and giggles, the Foundation should absolutely get lawyers to put together a binding agreement to this effect and send it to Elon to sign.

… and then watch him run away
and he'd definitely pay too.
Chance the name for an hour, display only Elon’s wiki page and sue the dickhead.
For a billion I'd change my name to that.
All it takes for you guys to donate is for Elon to make a dick pun about your name?

If I can get him to do mine will you donate to me? I'm broke af I could use it.
Does he stipulate for how long? If not, change it for a day, take his money, change it back, and give Elongated Muskrat the finger.
he seems to be speed running the tesla bankruptcy arc
I'd give Elon 1 billion picoDollars to change his name to Dickipedia. Rounded down.
Vaguely relevant Big Train
He should keep it and rename himself. It suits him more.
Yo I’ll change my name to Dickipedia
Wikipedia is already rich enough, donate to the contributors instead
This is so douchey. Why not just give that money to Wikipedia? Or even a smaller amount? As the largest free information resource in the world, Wikipedia is an invaluable asset for humanity as a whole. Just feels weird to say, "I'll give you money, but do a trick first," to anyone, let alone the holders of a free, worldwide encyclopedia.

Wikipedia is a useful tool, Elon is a major tool.
I'd give Elly 1$ to suck that pedia.
I'd actually take that in their shoes. That's a lot of money, who cares if the English edition gets a silly name.
Because israel controls wikipedia. Wake up sheeples. They say it clearly. Learn about hasbara. Google it hasbara influence on wikipedia.
That's really funny actually
Sounds like a decent deal and pretty funny tbh wikimedia foundation gets a shit ton of money which'll go towards a variety of good causes while being in the public eye because elon is involved and Elon is a big figure Elon gets to make a billon dollar shitpost everyone's happy sure as hell doesn't seem like Elon is attacking wikimedia foundation just that he wants to make a bad financial decision although saying that most things Elon do end up being bad financial decisions

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