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Larry Sanger

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
651 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

So clear, in fact, that Jimmy Wales himself weighed in on the talk page of that particular article and said that it's biased and

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

And I followed up and said, well, here's something we actually agree on.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

And a lot of people were up in arms about that because Wikipedia does tend to take, as I say, a sort of progressive stance.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

And apart from some Jewish progressives, they tend to be...

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

very much pro-Palestinian on any issues connected to the war.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

And that shows itself in the Wikipedia articles.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

See, this is difficult because here we're talking about the law of nations, not criminal law, which is very different.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

International tribunals have never been regarded by legal philosophers as quite the same thing.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

as other sorts of, you know, ordinary tribunals.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

And that actually does affect how people write history books, or at least it can.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

You know, if somebody...

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

in good faith, who is in good standing in other respects, and on the global stage takes another view, that tends to affect how it's reported.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

But now we're talking about just traditions of how things are reported, and we're not really talking about the issue itself.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

So I mean, if you ask my opinion,

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

The fact that some international organizations are opposed to the bombardment of Gaza, not all of them even, and so much so that they call it a genocide, then that in itself...

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

That doesn't mean that they are fact-stating, right?

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

When you're talking about geopolitics in general, it's kind of important to remain neutral in any sort of way.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

reference work, I think.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

Right, right.

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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules

Of course they always deny it.