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Wikipedia's Cofounder Has Been Banned from Wikipedia

17 points by RickJWagner ago | 5 comments

appreciatorBus [-]

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max__dev |root |parent |next [-]

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

y-curious |root |parent |next |previous [-]

I’ve never felt this way and generally avoid partisan media. Can you give an example?

appreciatorBus |root |parent [-]

A couple of well researched examples

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/how-wikipedia-whitewashe...

https://archive.ph/ZqHRu

To be clear, I'm sure anyone who wants to can dig up examples of other types of bias, and of course, truly excellent articles on non-political topics. If you restrict your reading to avoid anything related to contentious political narratives, you'll probably do ok. It just seems like the organization as a whole tilts in one particular direction, and this seems bad for something that is supposed to be a neutral source of knowledge.

hlieberman |root |parent |previous [-]

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

appreciatorBus |root |parent [-]

Liberal, yes. Progressive/left, no.