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Larry Sanger

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

But sympathetically, the best journalism, right, about problems actually makes a real attempt to sort of get inside the skin of everyone that's involved in a controversy.

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

So, now, if you want to say, for example, that an article about the shape of the Earth should just rule out the flat Earth theory, and so it's sort of out of the Overton window or something like that.

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

Or if you are, I don't know, editing an English encyclopedia and you don't think there is such a thing as a right to bear arms, right?

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

Then that would be out of your Overton window.

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

But then what you have to say is the...

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

The encyclopedia might be neutral within its bounds, but it has bounds.

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

And therefore, to that extent, it is actually biased.

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

And I'm comfortable saying that.

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

So there are degrees of neutrality.

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

Yeah.

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

Well, I think in, in a really robust, um,

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

robustly neutral resource.

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

They shouldn't be framed as fringe.

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

They shouldn't be framed by the authors of the article at all because the authors are not engaged in the

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

active framing.

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

That is not what they do.

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

Rather, they say that the flat earth theory is framed as fringe by mainstream geologists.

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

Yeah.

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

And that's really all you need to say.

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

If there is a question about which there is some dispute and a claim is made that somebody important, reasonably important anyway, disagrees with,