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Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competitor
« on: February 27, 2021, 04:00:28 pm »

Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competitor

Larry Sanger blasts increasingly woke Wikipedia's whitewashing of socialist and communist human rights atrocities as "propaganda."



By Carrie Sheffield

Updated: February 26, 2021 - 11:01pm


A co-founder of Wikipedia is launching a competing website as a free-speech-friendly alternative to what he views as the increasingly monolithic left-wing bias of his former organization.

Last May, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger wrote an op-ed on his personal website titled "Wikipedia is Badly Biased" claiming that Wikipedia's neutrality policy — known as  "NPOV," or neutral point of view — "is dead."

Now, when schoolchildren visit the Wikipedia website to look up answers to questions about the meaning of socialism, "they're going to find an explanation that completely ignores any conservative, libertarian, or critical treatment of the subject," Sanger told "Just the News AM" television program. "And that's really problematic. That's not education. That's propaganda."


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Sanger told Just the News that his new, forthcoming project, called "Encyclosphere," is a decentralized network of the world's encyclopedias, what he called "an old-fashioned, leaderless, ownerless network, like the blogosphere."

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Re: Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competi
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2021, 04:12:57 pm »
Chances are that the left will either hijack it or get it Parlered.
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Re: Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competi
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2021, 05:25:52 pm »
Wow.   The co-founder of Wikipedia is pretty slow on the uptake.

All the Americans realized how biased Wiki was during Junior's Reign of Error.
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Re: Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competi
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2021, 06:41:46 pm »
Quote from: Sled Dog on February 27, 2021, 05:25:52 pm
Wow.   The co-founder of Wikipedia is pretty slow on the uptake.

All the Americans realized how biased Wiki was during Junior's Reign of Error.

Pretty much. W'pedia can be a useful starting point for some person or event or thing with no political aspect. If the person, etc. is political or has been politicized then reader beware or just find another source.
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Re: Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competi
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2021, 06:57:55 pm »
Quote from: jmyrlefuller on February 27, 2021, 04:12:57 pm
Chances are that the left will either hijack it or get it Parlered.
If Sanger is really concerned about keeping his new site free he’d better stay engaged in staffing decisions because leftists are like cockroaches, they’ll find a way in to spread their disease.
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Re: Citing Wikipedia's capture by the left, site's co-founder launching free-speech-friendly competi
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2021, 11:34:15 pm »
Wiki is reasonably reliable for technical matters.  So long as the subject isn't politically charged, like the Global Warming Lie.

But if you want to know about the spin of a proton, it usually provides a reasonable explanation.

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