Sanctioned Suicide meat preservative overdose cult & whitewashing by Wikipedians (general thread, Kevinsanc, Freedom4U)

[journo]

Kenneth Law is now facing first degree murder charges (up from second degree)
reported yesterday

https://www.cp24.com/news/kenneth-law-n ... -1.6743040

So it's an alleged serial killer trial now.

[ericbarbour]

In spite of the media reports, and threads here and on WPO, there is still no article about Mr. Law.....the talk page for the SS article continues to attract annoying busybodies. This month we get more wikilawyering from Freedom4U. Christ what an asshole. A clear "spectrumite" who can't stop obsessing over Korean disasters.....and Sanctioned Suicide. No freedom in there.

[journo]

With the exception of refusing to mention Law, patrollers on the Wikipedia article stopped whitewashing the site and its leaders months ago.

Especially in the last few months. That includes Freedom4U, who is actually keeping whitewashers out at this point. This thread title is getting outdated, but might just use it regardless to keep from having multiple threads.

[ericbarbour]

With the exception of refusing to mention Law, patrollers on the Wikipedia article stopped whitewashing the site and its leaders months ago.

It still represents a major failure of WP "governance" and content quality. We can read about Ken Law's activities everywhere...except on Wikimedia sites.

[journo]

The Canadian poison-by-post killer allegedly claimed to be a retired New York doctor under the name ‘Greenberg’ and interacted with members of a suicide forum

The National Crime Agency (NCA), which is investigating Law in the UK, is now probing whether he was posing as Greenberg to shepherd vulnerable people to his poison business.

Relatives of those who took a substance sent to them by the Canadian chef reported loved ones had been approached by a mysterious character known as “Greenberg” before their deaths.

Greenberg had created an account on a suicide forum ― claiming to be a retired New York medical examiner ― and repeatedly spread the name of Law’s website among members.

The Times has established that Greenberg supplied the name of Law’s website to at least four people on the suicide forum and two of those later died.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/084d ... 2b5f3531db

The forum and its social media manager claim they are unable to perform basic server server tasks to verify info about the 'Greenberg' account on their own forum. Given their response to everything up until now about founders and recent domain registrants was "delete/hide fucking everything", wonder if they are taking the same approach to Greenberg.
https://archive.is/B9RNR

[journo]

A measure to criminalize the act of encouraging someone in Kansas to die by suicide has been signed into law. Gov. Laura Kelly signed the measure, HB 2144, on Wednesday. The new measure punishes someone for “knowingly encouraging another person to commit or attempt suicide when the person knows that such other person has communicated a desire to commit suicide,” the bill read. Perpetrators could face a felony if the person died, with a conviction carrying 11 to 36 months in prison. In cases where the victim of suicide encouragement does not die, the charge would be a misdemeanor, The Eagle reported.

https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-go ... rylink=cpy


The bill was successfully pushed by parents of those who lost children on the incel-adjacent suicide site. During their testimony to the Kansas legislature, the leading parental activist specifically called out actions which occurred on social media due to the owner of the incel site.
https://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2023_ ... 208_07.pdf


This new law, which is unique as it criminalizes encouraging suicide even without a death, came months after User:Justanotherguy54 on Wikipedia put that the site encourages suicide in the first sentence of the Wikipedia article.