[Foundation-l] Spectrum of views (was Re: Sexual Imagery on Commons: where the discussion is happening)

Noein pronoein at gmail.com
Tue May 11 18:58:47 UTC 2010


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On 11/05/2010 12:44, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> I would propose that the reason we are subject to such a _small_
> amount of complaint about our content is that much of the world
> understands that what Wikipedia does is —in a sense— deeply subversive
> and not at all compatible with "ideas which must be suppressed".  This
> fact gets a lot of names, some call it a "liberal bias" though I don't
> think that is quite accurate.  But there very much is a bias— a
> pro-flow-of-information bias.  We don't always realize we have it, but
> I don't think we deny it when we do.

And there is a general consensus here about those libertarian views?
I'm impressed. Sorry to repetitively check the ethical temperature of
the community, but I come from social horizons where it's not only not
natural, but generates hatred. I never could talk about libertarian
ideas outside of one or two family members and two or three friends.
Here, it seems the norm, and I simply can't believe it.
As I said before, Wikipedia acted like a magnet on me. I'm wondering if
it's uniting all the (internet connected) libertarian of the world. In
this case I'm surprised that it didn't receive more serious attacks from
the establishment.
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