Jimmy Wales
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They don't really understand how Wikipedia works.
And so they want to impose duties on the organization to do the content moderation and things like that.
I'm like, well, we don't do that.
Like our community does that.
And in fact, if you forced us to have to do that.
We would be undermining our volunteer community.
Like, it's not going to work.
It's a bad idea.
And, you know, other things, you know, like restrictions that would require us to identify users and things like that, gather data we don't gather now.
Like, basically, you know, I do try to be diplomatic a bit.
And I'm also like, you know what?
We didn't do that in China.
We didn't do that in Turkey.
We're not going to do it in your country either.
So, you know, take us as we are.
No, it's legit.
And I like that's, you know, user privacy is massively important.
Here's a funny thing that happened.
So we used to be not encrypted and now we're encrypted.
So just for most people, they may not know what that means.