Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has warned that the website can no longer be trusted — insisting it is now just “propaganda” for the left-leaning “establishment.”
Sanger told UnHerd’s Lockdown TV Wednesday that he started the “encyclopedia of opinion” in 2001 purely on the basis it would offer true neutrality and offer “multiple points of view” on “hot button issues.”
Now, he insisted, conservative voices are “sternly warned if not kicked out” if they try to add a different take on establishment views — which Sanger deemed “propaganda.”
I'm politically homeless, which makes it easy for me to simply be curious without taking sides between Trump and Biden, two certifiably incompetent candidates for President. Come' on, America! Why in God's name should we be stuck with these two candidates once again?
OK. I needed to get that off my chest.
In the meantime, the left-leaning corporate "news" media is undoubtedly exhausted trying to cover-up the years-long malfeasance of Joe Biden. Upcoming testimony before Congress is expected to blow things wide open. In the meantime, Uncle Joe has apparently cured cancer.
You need not agree with everything someone says to treat them with respect. Daryl Davis has proved over and over that good things can happen when you refuse to get caught up in hate:
What's the next step now that it is undeniable that Anthony Fauci and his cronies lied to the American Public by writing the "Proximal Origin" paper, apparently to protect their roles in funding and facilitating dangerous gain of function research? How we proceed when NYT, WaPo, CNN, NPR and MSNBC won't discuss the recently revealed communications demonstrating that many of the nations most politically powerful scientists lied when they published the "Proximal Origin" article in Nature?
At the heart of the censor resides hubris, more than anything else. If you look at the intellectual history of humanity, it's nothing but trial and error. What people believe in one generation is Absolute Truth. It gets to be regarded by the next generation as a grievous error. That's the way that we advance. That's what makes life exciting: The fact that we err, we're fallible, we're constantly in search of the truth, we're using our reasoning skills and our cognitive abilities to try and figure out what is true and what is false.
There are a lot of things I believe, very, very, very passionately, I honestly have never ever gotten to the point where I felt like what I believe in is so clearly and indisputably and permanently true that I believe it ought to be illegal for anyone to express an opinion different than the one that I had. I couldn't imagine ever finding the hubris necessary to believe that about myself that I now reside above the human history of trial and error. But that's really what these people believe. And I think that is the reason censorship is so appealing: once you convince yourself that you were on the side of objective good, whoever disagrees with you or sees the world differently than you is the enemy of all--evil--and you can only see the world in that kind of binary way. It almost becomes not just tolerable, but necessary to say those people shouldn't be able to speak because they're fonts of falsity, lies and deceit, whereas I am the owner of the truth. I feel extremely uncomfortable believing that about myself, even though there are a lot of things I really strongly believe in and believe are true. I just never have gotten to that point. And can't imagine getting to that point.
Once you adopt a view, your political opponents are no longer people who are misguided and wrong, or even ill-intentioned . . . they're essentially on the level of Hitler and Nazism. That's the single worst evil we could possibly think of. If you really believe that the United States faces a choice between remaining a liberal democracy on the one hand, or succumbing to a Hitlerian, white nationalist dictatorship, if that's something that you actually believe, on some level it becomes rational to say: "I think the evil we're facing is so overarching that anything and everything we do, censoring, lying, sabotaging, cheating and deceiving becomes, again, not just morally justifiable, but morally necessary.
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