For years now, Larry Sanger has been trying to save the site he co-founded, Wikipedia, from itself and anonymous administrators whose attempts to keep the information posted on the various Wiki pages one-sided (anti-America, anti-conservatism, anti-Israel) have drawn sharp criticism not just from Sanger and conservative commentators but also from Congress.
Legal Insurrection has extensively covered this issue, with the small sampling of articles below giving more background on the problems, the bad faith actors involved, and who all is trying to do something about it:
Earlier this week, Sanger, who formally left the site in 2002 but came back last fall, revealed that he has now been “indefinitely banned” from being able to edit the pages on the site that he co-founded:
Ostensibly, his crimes were allegedly trying to recruit non-Wiki users to join Wiki to influence the outcome of discussions currently being debated on the platform. He was also accused of trying to undermine Wikipedia, of using it as a “battleground,” and of not really being there to edit:
https://x.com/lsanger/status/2069111763639955788?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
His biggest “crime” of all, though, was to form the WikiProject Intellectual Diversity (WID) group. Because trying to steer Wikipedia away from leftist GroupThink mentality is equivalent to a declaration of war as far as its editors are concerned:
Left-leaning website Wikipedia has taken the drastic action of permanently blocking one of its founders from editing pages — after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair.Last month, Larry Sanger launched WikiProject Intellectual Diversity (WID), a group designed to help reinforce the online encyclopedia’s “original, firm commitment to intellectual diversity,” by emphasizing neutrality and transparency.[…]“I am flabbergasted,” Sanger told The Post, saying the decision was made by a group of the site’s volunteer editors. He described the modern Wikipedia community as being like a “mob or a blob,” noting users do not feel obligated to a specific vision of the rules, but rather to each other.[…]Sanger became unpopular among the site’s most prolific editors for making public calls for those whose viewpoints have typically been underrepresented — Hindus prominently, but also, most pointedly, American conservatives — to be more involved.
I think that sums things up rather nicely.
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