🎬 Larry Sanger - Wikipedia Is Broken and No One Wants to Admit It

0:00I'm personally sorry for what you've gone through, because of Wikipedia, I'm sorry to have unleashed this on the world, I did not intend for this to be an engine of libel as it has become. We were being ripped apart on Wikipedia. I just couldn't believe it because I think we all just assumed it was this transparent, trusted source of information equal to the truth. A fair number of accounts that will libel you mercilessly, with no recourse, you can't sue them because we don't know who they are. When COVID happened and lockdown happened, we were one of the few channels that started asking hard questions. We had the second largest YouTube livestream in the world, and that episode was banned and deleted 10 minutes after we finished it. Spy agencies are very much engaged in shaping public opinion in one way or another. It was shocking. We didn't think that there would be a censorship regime, and Wikipedia was definitely part of that.

1:02The Twitter files, which were pretty much ignored completely by mainstream media, it was pretty shocking what they found. Now when we go look back, we realize that they were getting those directives from government. When the government gets in the business of massaging what the people shall believe, that's very disturbing to me. How we can turn Wikipedia around. All I'm proposing is that there be an editorial assembly to make needed changes to Wikipedia. Neutrality is acknowledging that people are ultimately going to end up carving up reality for themselves, and we ought not to impose our views on others.