User: Larry Sanger/nine Theses
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Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, outlines nine theses on the state of online encyclopedias and knowledge sharing, sparking discussion on the future of collaborative knowledge creation.
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As always, you have a right to free speech. There's no right that we have to listen to your nonsense.
My immediate thought is the "belief silos" from Neal Stephenson's Fall. I don't think letting people pick and choose different versions of the same article according to how it aligns with their world views is going to be great for Wikipedia's credibility in the long term.