Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger early last week published his “nine theses” to fix the online encyclopedia on his blog and Wikipedia itself. His collection of essays on Wikipedia criticizing the site was subsequently subjected to multiple deletion attempts with editors censoring content over criticism of specific editors. Some editors appreciated Sanger’s criticism, but many viciously attacked him, accusing him of fascism, and suggesting he could be banned from the site.
The “nine theses” were introduced by Sanger during an interview on Tucker Carlson’s podcast where he criticized the site he co-founded as a “mixture of oligarchy and anarchy” and noted numerous problems due to the site’s current bias, which he described as “globalist, academic, secular, and progressive” or GASP. S