There's currently a wave of bots trying to vandalize #OpenStreetMap by replacing names (and russian langauge names) with anti-russian slogans. The #OSM DWG has blocked 5,000+ accounts already
😢 This is not the way people!
e.g. <https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/how-about-limit-new-accounts/101656/49>
#Ukraine #Russia #RussianInvasion
How about limit new accounts?
In case people haven’t noticed, there’s another wave of vandalism ongoing. I’m in the process of blocking the accounts that I can identify (currently ~4500, but may increase), and a number of other people have reverted obviously problematic changese…OpenStreetMap Community Forum
Rihards Olups
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•@grin I did not advise it to anybody specific, don't think so.
Could it be that you want to say something specific, but try to avoid saying it openly?
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•(As a private person I wholly support that, but not in these 🧵s and not around #osm tags.)
That is my point of view.
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•Rihards Olups
•@grin It's actually very simple, and we've been through this many times before.
You either support the victim, or you support the aggressor.
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
― Naomi Shulman
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•Rihards Olups
•I value personal integrity and morals high enough not to ignore or minimise an invasion that is rife with murders, rapes, mutilations, torture, castrations, beheadings and more. Staying silent about a sadistic genocide for "political" reasons is low.
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•I believe that is a significant difference between us, including the meaning of the words "ignore" and "silent about".
Rihards Olups
•@grin Not quite. It was a very specific, related topic.
The tactics you used - intentionally or not - often are associated with people in repressive regimes or intentionally trying to minimise the wrongdoings by diluting or shifting the topic.
For example, in USSR/russia many people "don't talk about the politics" out of fear. Nowadays "it's politics" is also a way to avoid saying "I do not support Ukraine".
We can figure this out with a few very simple questions.
grin
•There's no "tactics": you see putins in every corner, and you feel entitled to call them out. Everyone's russian agent who does not agree with you and your point of view.
Let's agree to disagree. No point going on in circles.
Have a nice day!
grin
•Most bots are operated by a few single idiots.
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•@grin Please read what I wrote: I didn’t say that this is a good idea - I provided a point of view. Here is another: damaging the names of the streets of the country you are at war with is nothing compared with having your streets and houses bombed and your people killed!
And, just to be clear: I don’t think that this was the correct thing to do and I sympathize with the volunteers that have to fix it!
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•That's my view.
Siff
•@grin Again, you are reading something that I didn’t write.
I’m sorry that you have to fix the mess, but your anger is pontes in the wrong direction.
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•@ladybuginthemug Thank you for sharing your political views.
My view is that when I do OSM I do not want to do politics, and when I do politics I do not edit OSM. I really really prefer to separate them, because OSM is a GIS/mapping project which is mostly about facts, not opinions and agendas. I like it that way. You can not convince me otherwise, don't waste your time trying.