Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/nyregion/wikipedia-conference-gunman.html

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/683082

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HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social · 81 pts · 340d (4 replies)

A man in an orange sweatshirt rushed the stage. He was not in law enforcement, but a Wikipedia contributor on the conference’s “trust and safety team”: Richard Knipel, the City University of New York’s “Wikimedian-in-residence.” He grabbed the gunman from behind.

Another Wikipedian on the trust and safety team, Andrew Lih, had been standing watch in the aisle and charged forward, too.

Wikipedia's "Trust and Safety" team does NOT fuck around!

dan1101@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 340d (3 replies)

I think we need trust and safety teams in every neighborhood at this point.

village604@adultswim.fan · 10 pts · 340d (2 replies)

That's usually called the neighborhood watch

frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 340d (1 reply)

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village604@adultswim.fan · 5 pts · 340d

The police have always only served the interests of the ruling class.

avidamoeba@lemmy.ca · 70 pts · 340d (8 replies)

NYT's title makes it out as if he was going to shoot others. He was going to shoot himself.

klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe · 26 pts · 340d (6 replies)

No one would read about a suicide

Lembot_0004@discuss.online · 6 pts · 340d

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Longpork3@lemmy.nz · -7 pts · 340d (4 replies)

A public suicide in the middle of a conference, with a sign around his neck anouncing the reason for it seems like something people would read about.

I gotta say, I empathise with him on his cause too. We need to stop equating the act of child abuse with the innate sexual to children. You'd think that by this point in time, society would be ready to accept that sexual attraction is not something people have a choice over.

Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 340d (1 reply)

Wow, a pedo apologist in the wild. Didn’t have that on my bingo card for today.

arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 340d

Their username is a bit interesting too lol...

klammeraffe@lemmy.cafe · -2 pts · 340d (1 reply)

You'd think that by this point in time, society would be ready to accept that sexual attraction is not something people have a choice over.

I understand what you’re saying, but society isn’t ever going to get to the point where they want to tackle this brain problem in a logical way.

We have reached peak humanity.

nandeEbisu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d

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twistypencil@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 340d

I beg to disagree, it simply says 'avert a tragedy'

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 65 pts · 340d

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun are good guys who have empathy and a desire to see others live.

SSUPII@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 340d

Paywall

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 340d

That just kept getting weirder the further I read

mhague@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 340d

I don't get the idea of deliberately putting people in the jungle where there are no rules or morals or purpose out there... and then getting angry or surprised when they lash out at society.

The reasons someone shouldn't murder you live in society. X, Y, Z are why you don't hurt others, and XYZ don't exist in the jungle.

We should only throw people out that are worth destroying, like Nazis.