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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
Therefore, they think it's possible to pressure us in ways that it's actually not possible to pressure us.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
The community has real intellectual independence.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
But yeah, I do worry about it.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
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.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
Yeah.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
I mean, you know, we've given a response to the parts of that that were reasonable.
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I mean, what we feel like is there's a deep misunderstanding or lack of understanding about how Wikipedia works.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
You know, ultimately...
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
The idea that something being biased is a proper and fit subject for a congressional investigation is frankly absurd.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
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.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
I'm like, I know the Wikipedians, they're like a bunch of nice geeks.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
I mean, it's embarrassing for the Heritage Foundation.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
I remember when they were intellectually respectable.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
And that's a shame that if that's what they think is the right way forward, they're just badly mistaken.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
I mean, it's hard to say.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
There's a lot of different motivations, a lot of different people.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
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
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Only citing mainstream media and the mainstream media is biased.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
Okay.
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'The Interview': Jimmy Wales Thinks the World Should Be More Like Wikipedia
I mean, that's an interesting question, interesting criticism.