Jimmy Wales

Therefore, they think it's possible to pressure us in ways that it's actually not possible to pressure us.

The community has real intellectual independence.

But yeah, I do worry about it.

I mean, it's always something that weighs very heavily on us is volunteers who are in dangerous circumstances and how do they remain safe is like critically important.

Yeah.

I mean, you know, we've given a response to the parts of that that were reasonable.

I mean, what we feel like is there's a deep misunderstanding or lack of understanding about how Wikipedia works.

You know, ultimately...

The idea that something being biased is a proper and fit subject for a congressional investigation is frankly absurd.

And so, you know, in terms of asking questions about cloak and dagger, whatever, we're not going to have anything useful to tell them.

I'm like, I know the Wikipedians, they're like a bunch of nice geeks.

I mean, it's embarrassing for the Heritage Foundation.

I remember when they were intellectually respectable.

And that's a shame that if that's what they think is the right way forward, they're just badly mistaken.

I mean, it's hard to say.

There's a lot of different motivations, a lot of different people.

Some of it would be, you know, genuine concern if they see that maybe Wikipedia is biased or, you know, I have seen, for example, Elon Musk has said Wikipedia is biased because they have this really strong rules about

Only citing mainstream media and the mainstream media is biased.

Okay.

I mean, that's an interesting question, interesting criticism.