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Purveyor of obvious truths, despite having a Ph.D. in philosophy and being ex-founder of Wikipedia. Now president, @ks_found .🇺🇸✞

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Developers—want to fight back against centralization of information, and the censorship and rewriting of history that result from centralization? The Encyclosphere is one of the most viable open projects in the fight. Here’s how coders can help:
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@MaxBoot Tell me more about how the survival of democracy requires censorship.
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A new Harvard/John’s Hopkins study found that for every one COVID hospitalization prevented, “18 to 98 actual serious adverse events” have have been caused. The vaccine and vaccine mandates have been an enormous mistake, and studies are proving it.
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A big Indian website now, OpIndia.
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‘Nobody should trust Wikipedia’, warns its co-founder Larry Sanger, says the site is taken over by leftists who reject content that doesn’t fit their agenda
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1/ Thread: Child sex trafficking—by elites—is a horrible reality. Below, I outline the case for this claim. Please share with friends so they can wake up. Favor? After each tweet, please post the most persuasive online evidence you know of. > There is proof of all this. < 👇
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I'll decide for myself whether there will be Great Reset in my life, thanks very much. And I will insist, as a citizen of a great and free democratic republic, on being free to voice my concerns about draconian new government controls and loss of national sovereignty.
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I wasn’t very nice to Wikipedia in this interview.
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Watch this exclusive interview of @lsanger , founder of Wikipedia. He talks about how Wikipedia started, its Left bias, Jimmy Wales, his unwillingness to fix things and what we can do about it. This was the most eye opening interview I have ever conducted
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You have got to be kidding me. "Car crash." Wikipedia has become a ridiculous self-parody.
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And there it is
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@RBReich Um..."if consumers don't like what [Twitter does], they can go elsewhere" is exactly what the left was saying two weeks ago. Suddenly, your tune changes! Amazing! LOL!
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1/ I have learned that the people probably angriest at Wikipedia are Hindus. They are seriously upset that Wikipedia has, at least in their opinion, a thoroughly one-sided view of the Delhi Riots from last February, favoring the Muslims and blaming Hindus as instigators.
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Big Tech should be afraid. Recents events have seriously pissed off a lot of smart developers who are now working furiously to decentralize everything. Your centralized, controlling platforms are going to be bad memories soon.
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1/ Must read. Let's demand an explanation for this from police/reporters: *Why* was it that George Floyd worked with his killer, Derek Chauvin, on the security team for the El Nuevo Rodeo club on Tuesday nights "for much of the year before" the killing?
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To #Ohio Gov. @MikeDeWine : I'm Dr. Larry Sanger, Wikipedia co-founder. I'm an Ohioan. 1/ I'm beyond being polite. I demand that you clarify the precise conditions under which all our freedoms will be restored. It's sickening I must ask this. When will we be free again? Answer!
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Very interesting study of Wikipedia India. Confirms oft-heard suspicions.
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In case you missed it: “Nancy Antoinette.” Masks and salon (etc.) shutdowns for thee, not for me.
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Somebody needs to make a website where people can report inaccuracies and problems with Wikipedia articles. That and only that. Nothing else. A database of Wikipedia errors and misinformation. If you make it, I promise to send it plenty of traffic. (I'm a Wikipedia co-founder.)
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So, it looks to me like Rumble is to YouTube as Parler is to Twitter.
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Compare how Britannica and Wikipedia introduce the traditional system of Indian medicine called Ayerveda. Britannica is respectful. Wikipedia has no fewer than four dismissive epithets in the first paragraph: "quackery," "pseudoscientific," "protoscience," and "unscientific."
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@lsanger You are right Mr Larry Compare Wiki vs Britannica. Britannica sure has lot of biases but If you match what is written on Wiki page vs link quoted. You will be amazed to see how Wiki spreads not knowledge but missinformation and propoganda
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@AdamantPluto @yegg Agreed. There should be an emergency executive/board meeting in response to this and a 180 degree reversal.
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Thing is, Tucker knows just how much Spacey is despised by his viewers. Something is up. Merry Christmas.
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Ep. 56 A Christmas Eve election surprise
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There is a massive irony in the fact that Wikipedia is so extremely biased: it was started by someone who cares unusually deeply about neutrality (me), who developed and defended its neutrality policy at great length. Man makes plans, and God laughs.
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12/ Look these up: NOTE: separate tweet below for each! The Catholic Church, Pedowood, underage groupies, Jimmy Savile, Rotherham, CPS disappearances, the Kinsey Institute, John of God, NXIVM, the Finders, Marc Dutroux, Laura Silsby...and yes, Pizzagate.
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@libsoftiktok I think "demonic" is overused and I have rarely used the word, like, ever, but...this is completely demonic.
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6/ This is what you've heard and (if you're like most people) probably already forgotten about. But we are not even close to being done. Did you know that ABC News had this story in 2016, and covered it up? They did. Everyone knows that, too, but few are talking about it.
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Wikipedia is considering sending "Mass killings under communist regimes" down the memory hole. You can't make this crap up. I remember when Jimmy Wales was a libertarian.
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8/ Right. Think about that. Hard. More of the story came out last summer. But no one else has been jailed, not even Epstein's chief accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, whose location is unknown. Few in the scandal-crazed media....seem to care much. That's weird, isn't it?
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@elonmusk "Authenticating all humans" makes me very nervous, sir.
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Using random violence, aimed at random people and symbols of some hated regime/system, to make political change—that’s a serviceable definition of “terrorism.” TDS has become so severe that it is making terrorists out of left radicals and terrorism supporters out of Democrats.
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1/ If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might think the ongoing lockdowns, masking, and social distancing, despite almost-zero deaths, is due to a desire to demonstrate to the world how international elites can fraudulently call the shots in defiance of facts and science.
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13/ The Catholic Church has had massive numbers of pedophiles. They never go away. Why not? Why don't the police move in on them? Why has it gone on for *generations*? And there's evidence it's condoned, yes, condoned and organized, within the Church.
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9/ We the people would learn much more about the suspects and allegations if more court documents were unsealed. But massive numbers of Epstein case documents have been sealed. The court system is protecting the guilty—again, as they did in 2008. They do that a lot, turns out.
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@Amy_Siskind Unless he's a white Christian. In that case, demonize the killer with the attention of having his name widely known and associated with the inherent evils of Christian white males. Right? Just checking. Want to make sure I'm getting this right.
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Having many small donors does not guarantee Wikipedia's independence, as this states. It would help if we could identify the largely anonymous administrator corps. How can we know if Wikipedia is independent if we don't know who is calling the shots—and who they work for?
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5/ But I'm just scratching the surface, here. There are hair-curling claims about a "temple" on his island and rites performed in the hill underneath it. You don't have to believe that, to be shocked by Epstein's circle. But the occult connections keeps recurring, disturbingly.
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3/ He was arrested (twice) because he was a pedophile who abused many teen girls. He had an island in the Caribbean in which this took place, which, by all credible accounts, was visited by many of his famous friends.
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7/ Did you know that it was covered up in a different way last 2008, when Epstein was sentenced to a mere slap on the wrist? Why on earth, in the name of all that is holy? "Because he's so powerful and has powerful friends to protect," you say.
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4/ There is courtroom evidence that Epstein's friends sexually abused the teen girls he collected, who as young as 12 were basically sex slaves.
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@KeithOlbermann @DelanoSquires So what is the definition of “biological male”?
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11/ It sure sounds like (a) many of the Beautiful People know about child sex trafficking by elites, (b) some participate in it, and (c) the media and courts cover it up. "But...systematically? Do they really? Surely not," you say. Sadly this happens over...and over...and over.
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10/ Now, think. This doesn't take evidence, it takes a little bit of brave thinking. What must our beloved and distinguished world of famous, rich, and powerful people be like, if Epstein's friends (THOSE people!) are violating teen sex slaves—and the courts *protect* them?
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@MichSoS @gatewaypundit Hey, Michigan Department of State: it is not your place to insert statements about what is "misinformation" in the free public discourse, or to try to control the flow of information. That way leads rapidly to totalitarianism. We repudiate this behavior. Stop it.
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@sairasameerarao How about India, now, Saira? Is it better in these regards? Because if it's better, you could always go there. Or is it worse? Well?
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Hey, @Wikipedia : propaganda is not knowledge! —They won't listen. But we don't need them. We're building an open network of all the encyclopedias. But we need your help. Please give generously! #GivingTuesday | via
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Retweet if you think Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook are controlled (in part) by the CIA.
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2/ I have been asked over and over to condemn Wikipedia for its anti-Hindu bias. Not knowing anything about the sectarian conflict or about the riots, I have demurred. That would be foolish of me to do. I am happy to point out the obvious, namely, that Wikipedia is biased.
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@Timcast Tim, I’m co-founder (or as I like to say, “ex-founder”) and I agree. See , a project to create the decentralized superset of all encyclopedias. We’ll be announcing the project and an accompanying free months-long conference soon.
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@keithboykin You are a liar. The law clearly states that 17-year-old Kyle had a right to carry that rifle. That is why the charge was dismissed. He didn’t just “shoot and kill people,” those people were brutally attacking him and would’ve killed him probably if he had not defended himself.
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Never visit Wikipedia again: You can now browse Wikipedia, and a dozen other encyclopedias, without leaving . Then the articles are automatically added to the free encyclopedia database.
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@JackPosobiec Sounds like she's working for Facebook rather than blowing the whistle on Facebook.
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20/ And did you know that children have gone missing, thousands of them, from the Child Protective Service's foster care system? And no. They're not all runaways. Some are purchased. The point here is that what should be an earth-shattering scandal is...ignored. Why?
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17/ The case of Jimmy Savile, famous British comedian, is stunning because he was knighted by the Queen long after rumors began that he systematically raped kids in hospitals...and supplied children to others. Close friend of the royals. Think they didn't know? Prince Andrew?
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3/ I do have a suggestion for my Hindu friends, however. Craft a professional article explaining the conflict in general (because Americans and Europeans may not understand it) as well as the story, as you see it from your point of view, of the riots.
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Ooh, nice find. Chucky Schumer here telling the American people that there was no reason for Hunter Biden to testify—that he had know relevant knowledge about why aid to Ukraine was (very temporarily) delayed. (As if *that* were an impeachable offense.) He knew relevant stuff.
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Now we know why Schumer was terrified of Hunter testifying during impeachment
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More evidence that the push for censorship and thought control on Wikipedia went right up to the top. Appalling. Even ten years ago, a CEO of a free information organization saying this sort of thing in America would have been basically unthinkable. How far we have fallen.
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EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that, as CEO of Wikipedia, she "took a very active approach to disinformation," coordinated censorship "through conversations with government," and suppressed content related to the pandemic and the 2020 election. NPR's new censor-in-chief.
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Massive number of pro-abortion accounts have been calling for the SCOTUS majority to be assassinated. Yes, really. The shameful evidence swiped from the awesome @libsoftiktok (source below).
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22/ John of God basically ran a sex slave camp masquerading as a spiritual revival of some sort. Oprah visited and was delighted with his ministry. But then, she has her own school for girls in South Africa that had its own child rape scandals; so maybe she didn't care.
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P.S. Folks: Come on, people. Why are we complaining to each other? Shouldn't we be complaining to our elected representatives? Let's start giving our local, state, and federal representatives an earache—explaining our dissatisfaction with their policies. That's still our right!
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19/ Why on earth did the authorities allow systematic, horrific abuse of children go on in Rotherham and other places (so many places schools, churches, hospitals, etc.), you can look it up)? They let it happen. Systematically. Deliberately. This is not a joke and it's real.
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@libsoftiktok This poor girl.
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4/ Then & only then explain what you think is wrong with the article in general. Give a few choice examples illustrating the bias. I might also conclude with an overture to Wikipedia, asking them to acknowledge that the Hindu point of view should be receive fair representation.
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15/ Let's take a break from the list to think about an important question. How can these people get away with their crimes? Why can they *still* hide, because indeed most of the perps are walking free? Both the police and the courts must be paid off or part of the networks.
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2/ The removal of *basic civil rights* without adequate explanation or any indication of when it will end is tyrannical. Are death rates increasing? No. The number of "confirmed" cases is, but the death rate is doing a random walk around levels reached last May.
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3/ I'm not denying there is a deadly virus, that it is an epidemic, or that it is growing right now. I am denying that it warrants silence on protecting our basic civil rights and liberties as Americans. I repudiate the notion of a "new normal." Why the silence? Clarify!
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I told Tucker: Wikipedia’s internal operations have become opaque; the Establishment twists them to its own purposes. The solution is to make a knowledge commons out of all the encyclopedias. I apologized to those WP has hurt. | via ...
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30/ I'm going to take a break now. I will probably come back to this thread later. Please help by filling in all the blanks; supply evidence about each of the tweets, and make this thread a resource for everyone. This thread could go on in this fashion for dozens of tweets...
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Boom. Hunter Biden & Burisma Holdings secured at least 6 high-level meetings with senior Obama admin officials just before Vice President Joe Biden forced the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the gas co., say memos and testimony.
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2/ The odds that they didn't know each other are vanishingly small. So let's just put it flat out: George knew his killer cop. So, why did the cop kill his co-worker? (Was it personal? A set-up somehow? What? I don't know. I want to know!)
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4/ Have lockdowns reduced rates in the past? That hasn't been established. Have they massively hurt local businesses? Yes, and *that* is provable. That was your fault, governor. Not the virus's. Yours. You didn't have to lock down. And masks? They too have no *proven* efficacy.
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What if we all agreed to meet at a Walmart (or some other store) at the same time, and all went in the shop at the same time, and did our shopping maskless? Strength in numbers. Just an idea.
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I love ppl like this woman who don’t give a **** about being liked or popular when it comes to standing up for her principles. & to the self righteous others-when did the sensation that comes w agreeing w the herd become better than the feeling of freedom?
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24/ Now, if famous people, the police, and the courts are involved in this sort of thing—as they'd have to be, to cover up so much for so long—wouldn't, say, the FBI also be involved? Yep. Look up the Finders. It's a fascinating and horrifying story.
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Looking forward to voting for Donald Trump tomorrow.
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6/ Gov. @MikeDeWine , you made a curfew, of all things. Is the virus somehow especially virulent after 10 p.m.? The fact that you try to legitimize a curfew as a disease-fighting measure shows that your "orders" have little to do with fighting disease.
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26/ Look at the case of Laura Silsby, and now I'm afraid we're getting into territory that is not just horrifying, it is also controversial, because Silsby is a Hillary Clinton friend. Her Haitian charity, accused of trafficking children.
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18/ Yes, this is heavy. But, look, it happens all over the world, repeatedly, in "high society." We just...never put all it together. The media is largely silent. This is surely why NAMBLA and pedophilia have had famous defenders, like poet Allen Ginsberg and some psychologists.
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29/ The plethora of elite child sex abuse makes that by political operatives more conceivable, doesn't it? I started taking that stuff more seriously after I learned about Epstein...and the rabbit hole. Look up Denny Hastert and another Clinton associate, Anthony Weiner.
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28/ Comet Ping-Pong became famous as the location of the "Pizzagate" shooting. Thing is, he took one shot and it hit the disk drive of Clinton friend, Democratic operative James Alefantis. Instagram posts associated with restaurant personnel were disturbing.
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23/ Are we done with Establishment connections with pedophilia? No. And this is real stuff you can look up. You just didn't know. Look up the NXIVM sex slave cult, which did involve kids, and had connections with heiress Clare Bronfman, Catherine Oxenberg, and Alison Mack.
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