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Larry Sanger

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

Well, all of those things need to be debated.

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

And I'm not saying that they're obvious and straightforward.

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

People can have good faith disagreements about how to solve such problems.

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

But something like that, that Gaza genocide article simply cannot be debated.

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

Justified for the very simple and straightforward reason that, you know, the people who are involved and a lot of other people outside are disagree with the description.

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

So I do want to.

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

acknowledge that it's not easy, of course, right?

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

But it's, there are clearer examples and less clear examples.

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

And this is one of the clearer examples.

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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...

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

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

Camp Gagnon
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.

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

You know, if somebody...