@realchrisrufo | Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct"

X ^ | 4/18/2024 | Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo, Katherine Maher

[ransomnote]

ransomnote: I confess I kept the unattractive image of her below even though I could have retaken the screenshot to get a 'fair and balanced' image of her, but she's against all that because it supports the 'White Male' canon...so her pic is below as is. Video is less than 2 minutes in length.

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848

Apr 18, 2024

 

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Katherine Maher: I started by talking about the idea of free and open information as some of our founding principles 'Free and open source' coming from the idea of the open source  community .

Well, I have come to the opinion and the perspective that 'free and open' was a way of looking at the world that was inherently limited relative to what we were trying to achieve.

'Free and open' has the best of intentionality, but in the end, what 'free and open' often ended up doing, particularly in the case of Wikipedia, was recapitulating many of the same power structures and dynamics that exist offline, prior to the advent of the Internet.

And so what we ended up seeing was Wikipedia really rebuilt this idea of knowledge as a whole around what, the Western canon.

We see the exclusion of communities, of languages, because of the ways in which Wikpedia Is based on reliable sources, the idea of a written tradition, which is particular to some cultures and not to others. 

The ways in which we ascribe notability often really comes some of this white male Westernized construct around who matters in societies, and who is elevated and who is voiceless.

And so some of these ideas of, sort of this, radical openness really did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be.

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ransomnote: This woman seems to function like the Typhoid Mary of wokeness, having moved on to 'help' NPR undermine American values and the First Amendment. Here's a related post.

• NPR's Katherine Maher: "the number one challenge" in her fight against disinformation is "the First Amendment in the United States," which makes it "a little bit tricky" to censor "bad information"

  4/17/2024, 5:42:03 PM · by ransomnote · 57 replies

  X ^ | Apr 17, 2024 | Katherine Maher via @realchrisrufo

[.44 Special]

Sourpuss, probably. But I wonder who was feeding her this line of Marxist bullpucky. It’s all too set and rehearsed on her part. As if she’s reading from a press release.

[MrRelevant]

I hate to break it to her but 99.999% of everything on Earth is a “white male construct”. White people cannot change that, the other races need to.

[9YearLurker]

This teaching is in all our schools and colleges.

[brookwood]

“some of this white male Westernized construct “
Maher should move to Gaza and see how she likes not being able to show her hair or face on the street for the rest of her life. No that’s a “male construct”. She should be grateful for the Western males who have fought for 1200 years so she isn’t subjected to this.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Yeah, really.

And the ideas that she espouses were the product of a white man.

Last I looked Karl Marx was white....