Internet Must Be Decentralized, Says Wikipedia Founder (25 min interview)

The New American ^ | 22 October 2019 | TNA Video

[yesthatjallen]

* Must Watch Video * (25 mins)

In this exclusive interview with The New American's Alex Newman, Wikipedia Founder Larry Sanger explained why he is now a critic of the online encyclopedia he helped to create. Sanger, who serves as executive director of the Knowledge Standards Foundation, blasted the liberal bias of Wikipedia, as well as the lack of public participation. He says the Big Tech companies have centralized the Internet, and that must be reversed. And finally, he talks about the pedophilia scandals involving elites from Silicon Valley, Hollywood, government, and beyond, saying humanity must understand how the world really works.

Internet Must Be Decentralized, Says Wikipedia Founder

[yesthatjallen]

* Must Watch Video * (25 mins)

Wikipedia Founder Larry Sanger describes himself as a Conservatarian.

He explains Wikipedia has been taken over by a small group of bad actors with an obvious liberal bias and locked-out everyone who disagrees with them.

[Steely Tom]

He explains Wikipedia has been taken over by a small group of bad actors with an obvious liberal bias and locked-out everyone who disagrees with them.

O'Sullivan's law: "All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing."

[ctdonath2]

The Internet _is_ decentralized.
There are vast high-speed data highways which make it snappy & convenient, but given outages/blockages/censorship there is (China-type national firewalls aside) no real centralization.

[cgbg]

Great post—I was wondering how the lefties did it—and it is explained here.

The articles on people they don’t like are amazingly hostile—and the articles on people they do like ignore any negative facts about that person.

[Brian Griffin]

There needs to be a router-based wide-area network (WAN)system to do away with ISP charges.

One WAN might extend from Fredericksburg, VA to Springfield, MA.

Motor vehicles might also carry routers, extending that WAN from at least Key West to Bangor, ME from about 7am to 10pm.

[Brian Griffin]

There is virtual centralization:
Amazon: shopping
Google: search and advertising
Facebook & Twitter: social media

[ctdonath2]

Popularity isn’t centralization.

Centralization is “you can’t get there without us.”

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for posting!

[Steve Van Doorn]

Seems you have to sign up too encyclosphere:
https://larrysanger.org/2019/10/introducing-the-encyclosphere/

[DeweyCA]

The place on the video where the host and Larry Sanger (founder of Wikipedia) discuss its liberal bias is roughly from 3:00 to 8:00.

[CJ Wolf]

Sign me up.

[yesthatjallen]

You’re welcome.

[posterchild]

Thanks for the link - he has a lot of good text articles at the base URL.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[daniel1212]

He explains Wikipedia has been taken over by a small group of bad actors with an obvious liberal bias and locked-out everyone who disagrees with them.

Too much the case.