Hostile BLPs

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Hostile BLPs

Post by ericbarbour » Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:40 pm

Should have started this thread years ago.

Today's example:
This is how Lucy Guo was treated in the San Francisco Chronicle today. "The youngest female billionaire in tech history" or something.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainme ... 290410.php

And this is how Wikipedia handles her.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Guo
Career
After dropping out of Carnegie Mellon, Guo interned at Facebook before joining Snapchat as the company's first female designer.[5] At Snapchat, she helped develop Snap Maps.[6] She then moved to Quora where she met Alexandr Wang.[7] They co-founded Scale AI in 2016, but she was fired two years later in 2018.[8]

In 2018, she launched an app called Apply to Date allowing users to create a dating resume.[9]

In 2022 she founded Passes, an OnlyFans competitor using connections from parties she attended.[10][11][12] It raised a $40 million Series A in 2024.[13]

Passes was reported in 2024 to have allowed an account featuring a 12-year-old selling bikini photos after she had been banned by another platform. The account was removed only after the New York Times requested comment.[14]

In 2025, Passes and Guo were sued by another creator who stated that they had distributed child sexual abuse material of her before she turned 18.[15][16][12]

Personal life
She was "living as a digital nomad" for a number of years before buying a $6.7 million apartment in 2020 in Miami where her parties caused conflict with neighbors.[17][18] She was described by the New York Post in 2022 as Miami's number one party girl.[19][7]

In 2024, she purchased another $4.2 million home in West Hollywood.[20]
You can thank one "La China Suares" for most of that.....really, really hates anyone named in the Forbes "30 Under 30" list. Especially Lucy Guo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1280985665

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Re: Hostile BLPs

Post by ericbarbour » Sun Apr 27, 2025 5:49 pm

An example in the news this week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Martin ... f_Columbia

Gets longer and longer. The notorious letter to the WMF triggered the nerds. :shrug:

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Re: Hostile BLPs

Post by Archer » Mon May 05, 2025 12:34 pm

ericbarbour wrote:
Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:40 pm
Should have started this thread years ago.

Today's example:
This is how Lucy Guo was treated in the San Francisco Chronicle today. "The youngest female billionaire in tech history" or something.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainme ... 290410.php

And this is how Wikipedia handles her.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Guo
I do not care. Youngest female billionaire in tech history Lucy Guo can solve her own problems. No offense, Eric. :shrug:

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Re: Hostile BLPs

Post by ericbarbour » Mon May 05, 2025 11:31 pm

Feel free to post your own examples.

There is also this one on another thread:
viewtopic.php?p=31006#p31006

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Re: Hostile BLPs

Post by Strelnikov » Mon Jun 23, 2025 5:55 am

Archer wrote:
Mon May 05, 2025 12:34 pm
ericbarbour wrote:
Thu Apr 24, 2025 9:40 pm
Should have started this thread years ago.

Today's example:
This is how Lucy Guo was treated in the San Francisco Chronicle today. "The youngest female billionaire in tech history" or something.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainme ... 290410.php

And this is how Wikipedia handles her.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Guo
I do not care. Youngest female billionaire in tech history Lucy Guo can solve her own problems. No offense, Eric. :shrug:
He's pointing out the writing which doesn't even match Wikipedia's vaunted standards. If this article were on Rationalwiki or Encyclopedia Dramatica that would be fine, because their standards are different (or lacking.)

It's also been tagged back in May, so the editors know this one "is problematic" as the kids say.
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Still "Globally Banned" on Wikipedia for the high crime of journalism.

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Re: Hostile BLPs

Post by ericbarbour » Sat Jun 28, 2025 1:27 am

They COULD have a hostile BLP about Joel Koskan. But they have nothing, probably because he never won an election. A "pillar of the community" and Republican politician, convicted of incest? Normally one of their "socially aware" nerds would be all over this. The "rules" are not really rules at all--everything in WikiWorld is made of rubber.

https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2022/11/0 ... lead-race/
https://www.siouxfallslive.com/news/sou ... t-sentence
https://www.dakotanewsnow.com/2023/04/1 ... rs-prison/
https://southdakotasearchlight.com/brie ... or-incest/
https://indianz.com/News/2024/11/12/sou ... -lawmaker/

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