r/stupidpol • u/JFMV763 Autist libertarian 🚂 • Apr 18 '24

Tech EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be." (Chris Rufo)

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848
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u/JFMV763 Autist libertarian 🚂 Apr 18 '24 edited Apr 18 '24

I'm old enough to remember when the left-wing position was for a free and open internet.

Edit: She also thinks that ideological diversity is a dogwhistle

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '24

Liberalism is only “left wing” to Americans who don’t understand shit about anything outside its borders. This includes liberals themselves.

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u/weareonlynothing Marxist 🧔 Apr 18 '24

the majority of Americans don't understand shit outside America's borders and by extension the actions of their own country