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Wikipedia’s Founder is Creating New Free Speech Competitor to Website, Citing Leftist Domination
Big League Politics ^ | 2-27-21 | Ricchard Moorhead

Posted on 02/27/2021 10:34:08 PM PST by DeweyCA

The man who originally created online encyclopedia Wikipedia is pledging to create a new platform to replace it, citing Wikipedia’s left-wing bias.

Larry Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia in 2001 before leaving the project, is describing his Encyclosphere as a networked aggregation of existing and new encyclopedia content, which will be distinguished from the colorful and unverified content slung onto Wikipedia by the site’s user base. Sanger envisions millions of people writing and submitting encyclopedia entries, which can be rated and judged for accuracy by their readers themselves, rather than the “arrogant and controlling oligarchy” Sanger maintains is running Wikipedia.

Sanger admitted that Wikipedia had become “badly biased” last year, citing the use of political propaganda by establishment editors on the site who consistently lock down articles pertaining to publicly discussed topics and figures.

Sanger cited pages documenting the history of the Soviet Union as an example of Wikipedia bias in remarks provided to Just the News on Friday. He’s previously cited Wikipedia pages for Donald Trump and Jesus Christ as examples of the thick leftist bias on the platform, disregarding Wikipedia’s old “no point of view” policy in favor of content that serves as little more than left-wing hitpieces.

Left-wing operatives, at times paid by powerful interests, use Wikipedia’s seniority system to defame conservatives and protect the reputations of their own progressive and liberal daddies. Allegations of child grooming and wide-ranging sexual harassment were hidden from the page of Lincoln Project pedophile John Weaver, with leftist editors claiming the information wasn’t relevant.

Wikipedia may very well be the most compromised and deceptive Big Tech platform present on the internet, using faux status as a neutral encyclopedia to defame conservatives and right-wingers. More disturbingly, Wikipedia has been used to distort historical events and culture, advancing the philosophy of hate under the guise of the 13th most popular website on the internet.

Sanger’s project may present a desperately needed alternative, and may recapture the Internet’s original spirit of free expression and the flow of information.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academicbias; bigtech; dh; encyclosphere; freespeech; internet; larrysanger; mediabias; wikipedia
When Wikipedia has gotten so bad that one of the co-founders decides he needs to create an alternative website, you know that it has gotten really badly biased.
1 posted on 02/27/2021 10:34:08 PM PST by DeweyCA
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2 posted on 02/27/2021 10:50:44 PM PST by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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He should consider teaming up with conservapedia.

https://conservapedia.com/Main_Page


3 posted on 02/27/2021 10:53:22 PM PST by Kevmo (So America gets what America deserves - - the destruction of its Constitution. ~Leo Donofrio, 6/1/09)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Left-wing operatives, at times paid by powerful interests, use Wikipedia’s seniority system to defame conservatives and protect the reputations of their own progressive and liberal daddies. Allegations of child grooming and wide-ranging sexual harassment were hidden from the page of Lincoln Project pedophile John Weaver, with leftist editors claiming the information wasn’t relevant.
Gosh, it's almost as if a complete lack of accountability in the tech industries is exactly like the unfettered financial power alleged against the major industrialists of the late 19th century.

4 posted on 02/27/2021 11:44:16 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Good for him

F Head from Alabama is a southern traitor .....the first founder....

Claims he gave it away...libtard idiot

Jimmy Wales

He and Morris Dees can do homo porn together

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales


5 posted on 02/27/2021 11:52:52 PM PST by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG)
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To: DeweyCA

Meet the new boss.


6 posted on 02/27/2021 11:54:25 PM PST by SpaceBar
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So long as contributions from users are allowed any such platform will be taken over by the Left.


7 posted on 02/28/2021 12:44:13 AM PST by arthurus ( Wu Han.rr)
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8 posted on 02/28/2021 1:42:35 AM PST by jroehl
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bookmark


9 posted on 02/28/2021 2:06:11 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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Not sure how a new one will avoid the same fate...


10 posted on 02/28/2021 3:14:12 AM PST by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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There is already a conservative “Wikipedia” called Conservapedia right here:

https://conservapedia.com/Main_Page

11 posted on 02/28/2021 4:26:35 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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See # 11


12 posted on 02/28/2021 4:27:29 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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I take delight in clicking right on through when Wikipedia throws up one of those “beg screens” asking for money.


13 posted on 02/28/2021 4:42:46 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Don't wish your enemy ill; plan it.)
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