Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia
Elon offers Wikipedia $ 1 billion to change their name to Dickipedia
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.
All of the wrong people have money.
Or money turns them into all of the wrong people.
It’s the effects of capitalism. It’s pathocracy.
Wikipedia should counter by offering Elon $4 to go towards paying off his massive hole from buying Twitter. 😂
He doesn't need to pay. Twitter is already worth less than the debt, if he continues to break that company apart there'll he no reason to even consider paying the debt off.
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.
Sorry i wasn't in the loop when we decided to stop talking about the town clown. I guess I'll stop being an idiot now. Thanks for the advice.
We already have Dickopedia elon, it's called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hawikipedia foundation's financials are solid, stable, and healthy.
how's twitter doing lately, elon?
wikipedia foundation’s financials are solid, stable, and healthy.
Are they though? They're asking for money constantly
I mean, donations are their only income so they have to ask but that doesn't mean they don't get enough.
They have more than enough money
They have more money then they know what to do with and blow a shitload every year
Indicator 9,876,872,820,111 that that fucker has more money than anyone should ever have.
There's not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.
The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn't matter whether they're being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.
More that it's a confirmation that having money doesn't make you a good person.
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.
Don't think he needs that domain when he's already got:
Disappointed that it isn't real
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Take Money.
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Re-Name to Dickipedia.
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Re-Name back to Wikipedia.
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Laugh about Musk.
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Profit.
Even better, tell him sure thing, send the money, and then just don't change it.
- Rename to elonpedia for a day
- Demand the billion dollars
- Find a young attorney to sue pro bono on the grounds that Elon is a dick
- Laugh about the fact musk has to pay attorneys to defend himself in court.
- ???
- Profit.
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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.
Or just in general.
He doesn't need to be, that's the worrying thing...
He's trying to distract from the probe into Tesla's range. It's working.
Wait, what?
There's a federal probe into Tesla lying about their vehicle range. He's throwing a fit and closing that it could cause great harm to the brand.
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.
Likewise. Jumped at it immediately
Maybe Elon should just donate a billion because he supposedly cares about free information so much?
Oh, but you see, information is really only free if it's something Musk agrees with.
I offer Elon $1 to change his name to Doge McCumStain. I hope he will accept my generous offer.
I'll offer him $10. As a measurement of a percentage of my personal wealth I am offering double what Elon is offering.
I challenge elon to give the one billion to me and I will give him back double
He clearly has the level of self-respect required for such a dignified name. And I doubt he's ever passed up an opportunity to make a quick buck.
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.
Honestly, they'd be stupid not to take it.
Imagine how much you could do with a billion. It'd perpetually sustain the organization, it'd allow them to hire translators and writers, resulting in better content for all of us.
Hell, I'd take it, and 99.9% of people on this planet would too.
I think you call his bluff, play chicken with him. See what he comes up with as his terms to the agreement, read the contract, have lawyers check it for loopholes and it they find one, sign the deal and exploit it.
Then donate the money to another foundation.
At some point I'd be willing to bet he would back down and not follow through, but anybody that is in a position to call him on his bullshit should do it
No reason. It would require elon to be part of whatever position and he will destroy it like twitter.
Also his endgoal is most probably to control what's written about him
He paid 44bln and hasn't even changed twitter.com yet. Don't expect him to pay up.
Sounds like a good idea for a wikipedia page. Put Elon's picture on it.
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 let him destroy wikipedia?
You are aware that Musk isn't doing what he's done to Xitter because he's stupid, right? That he's very intentionally destroying the platform, and that was a platform purchased at 44 billion?
Seriously?
and he'd definitely pay too.
Just like he fought Zuckerberg, and how he followed through on the Twitter purchase without having to be forced!
don't forget about his full self driving cars by 2015
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.
The other part is that you would also have to sue Elon to actually get paid.
That's what escrow is for
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.
Get the money first. You don't want to end up in a long, protracted legal battle because he offered you money in a social media post. It's how he ended up with Twitter.
he seems to be speed running the tesla bankruptcy arc
Big Train was s-tier sketch comedy.
It was basically the light-hearted counterpart to Jam
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I'd give Elon 1 billion picoDollars to change his name to Dickipedia. Rounded down.
He should keep it and rename himself. It suits him more.
Yo I’ll change my name to Dickipedia
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.
He wishes there was no Wikipedia, because then the most expensive source of his escapades wouldn't be so easily discovered. He could hire journalists, get all the fluff pieces, suffer little to no pushback, it would be great! For a narcissist and aristocratic twat like Elon Musk anyways.
Wikipedia is already rich enough, donate to the contributors instead
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
He said billion, with a B, not million.
Even better more money