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What an awful hit piece

This has to be the most embarrassing hit piece i have read in Wikipedia. You should be embarrassed. Xgllo (talk) 11:06, 27 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

What specifically is your objection - it is a sentence, term, or reference. thanks. Without knowing what your specific issue is, we can't have a useful discussion about it. 11:24, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

"Far-right haven"

Epik (company) isn't nothing but just one of a hosting website including Gab, 8chan, and so forth. there are no any clues that Epik is far-right or extremist as Epik aims no political, unbiased and free-speech-friendly as technologically or in policy. I also tried to delete unreliable sources, journalists, or claims, but my edit was considered a vandalism. Being free-speech-friendly has nothing done with "extremism". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.218.128.125 (talk) 01:53, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The available reliable sources do not reflect your views on Epik, and per WP:NPOV we must "represent fairly, proportionately, and, as far as possible, without editorial bias, all the significant views that have been published by reliable sources on a topic." (emphasis mine). You removed quite a lot of sources, so it's a little hard to respond in detail to your concerns there—at a glance the removed sources were Vice ((RSP entry), could potentially be discussed since there's no consensus at RSP, but I don't believe the source is being used on its own anywhere and is supported by other sources everywhere), SPLC (RSP entry), Seattle Times (not at RSP; in the "most reliable" category by Ad Fontes' Media Bias project), and HuffPost ((RSP entry), also supporting other cites; not used alone except for the Tal Moore claim), Wired (RSP entry), The Daily Telegraph (RSP entry), Fortune (RSP entry), NPR (RSP entry), Financial Times (RSP entry), and the ADL (RSP entry). GorillaWarfare (talk) 02:06, 31 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, hit piece for sure

The first paragraph should describe the company in an unbiased way. "Known as" would be an opinion. "Described as" is a bit vague, could be said about literally anything. For example, I once described Obama as looking like Alfred E. Newman, so are we going to say "described as looking like Alfred E. Newman" on Obama's page? The History section, minus the last sentence, should be the first paragraph.

The criticism on Parler is outdated. In fact, it was outdated even when it was written. It was fact even then that Facebook and Twitter also served as homes to extremist planning of the Capitol Building attack. Turns out, Facebook was the #1 source and Parler was probably the least used. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/02/07/sheryl-sandberg-downplayed-facebooks-role-in-the-capitol-hill-siege-justice-department-files-tell-a-very-different-story/?sh=6d76a75010b3

I've seen a lot of biased pages about politicians and such, but this was the worst by far.

An amazing coincidence

By an amazing coincidence, Epik has provided services for:

The Daily Stormer (Neo-Nazi message board)
Proud Boys (violent hate group that spreads conspiracy theories regarding Covid-19)
Oath Keepers (anti-government paramilitary organization)
8chan (white supremacy site that welcomed those kicked off of 4chan for child pornography)
Parler (service for antisemites and QAnon supporters kicked off of Twitter)
Gab (haven for extremists including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and QAnon conspiracy theorists)
BitChute (service that welcomes hate group videos banned from YouTube)
Patriots.win (alt-right service set up to replace Reddit's r/The_Donald subreddit after they shut it down for coordinating the storming of the Capitol)
InfoWars (just read Talk:InfoWars#Let's review, shall we?.)

See a pattern? That's right. the pattern is... it's all The Jews fault.^{(Source: Epik)} I'm just saying. --Guy Macon (talk) 08:40, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

directly anti-semitic statements unsupported by sources have no place on wikipedia. Please edit out or revise the words written after "the pattern is...". Your point is clear without such an indefensible statement.

TuffStuffMcG (talk) 09:30, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]