Posted on 02/28/2021 9:56:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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."
Sanger referred to a Fox News report last week by Maxim Lott, which noted, "The two main pages for 'Socialism' and 'Communism' span a massive 28,000 words, and yet they contain no discussion of the genocides committed by socialist and communist regimes, in which tens of millions of people were murdered and starved."
Wikipedia's socialism page claims, "The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century," Lott reported, but it "ignores a man-made famine in which Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin commandeered the food from regions like Ukraine and Kazakhstan, leaving millions to starve to death even as the Soviet Union exported grain to foreign countries."
The press office of Wikepdia's non-profit parent, Wikimedia Foundation, did not respond to a request for comment
First launched in 2001, Wikipedia was initially "truly committed to neutrality," said Sanger. For about the first five or 10 years, he recalled, "you could go to articles on the most controversial topics of the day and the culture war, and you would find all sides being fairly represented."
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One example, try to find much of anything negative in the WP page on LBJ. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson
Let me know when Encyclosphere starts publishing. Anyone?
I have a better idea: SHUT WIKIPEDIA DOWN.
Please look at this closer. The gene-splicing that is GMO goes far beyond “breeding” or selective breeding. God set boundaries on breeding that cannot be crossed. These guys are making combinations that are frightening. GMO corn protects itself by killing bugs that eat it by destroying their digestive system. There is no more corn that is not GMO because of the spread of the pollen. When I was younger no one had allergies to peanuts, corn, gluten, etc. Now some of those allergies can be fatal.
Like mules?
Species are not supposed to be able to breed, but it happens.
Eh. I’m not upset by this. Sometimes it makes tons of extra food possible, which is good for poor people the world over.
As for allergies, no one in the past made such a big deal over peanut allergies. Now it’s the biggest shaming issue, at least before COVID. It’s like autism to me. Just because it gets all this attention doesn’t mean it’s really any more prevalent. Sometimes they just expand the definition, too.
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