Why Does Elon Musk Want to Kill Wikipedia? - Steve Shives

[TexasTowelie]

[rampartd]

1. wikipedia is a free sorce of generall accurate information

references and footnotes are included.

musk's business is monopolizing and monetizing information , much of it of dubious provenance and accuracy.

i use wikipedia as a quick reference. it would be a shame if these maga q nuts aew allowed to destroy it.

btw ," libs of tik tok" is a site where these loons pretend to be teachers who perform gender reassignment or planned parenthood nurses who witness "post birth abortions" and such. purely juvenile grade propaganda.

[Skittles]

4. I use Wikipedia quite often so I send them donations occasionally

yes indeed

[burrowowl]

2. K&R

[appalachiablue]

3. K/R

[JoseBalow]

5. Oh, I know! Because the truth is the enemy of bullshit.

Amirite?

[pazzyanne]

9. Yep!

Musk and republicans are anti-truth based historical information among other things such as libraries, classroom teachers, Department of Education, etc..

[Botany]

6. Because he is @ his core an evil person who feels the truth works against him.

N/t

[ificandream]

7. While Wikipedia is not a completely trustable source for info, it doesn't have the chains that Musk's ex-Twitter does.

Which is why Musk hates it. It's hard competition for the Twitter he ruined. Freedom of speech, Muskrat?

[usaf-vet]

8. For several years now we send a small automated monthly donation to Wikipedia. So it is there when I am researching.

For the younger members reading this, you might not remember the early days of internet research.

Back then, when you did an internet search on any topic, you could usually rely on the fact that the first one or two returns for any search were the good, reliable sources to advance your research.

But then along came the ability for sources with adequate budgets to "buy" their way to the top of the returns. In those early research days, it became harder and harder to find a "good source." A source that led you to other good sources.

During those days, I consistently looked for a Wikipedia citation in the vast list of returns on any topic.

Now in my mid-seventies, I might want to research additional information on a topic I already have some knowledge about. Even now Wikipedia has some value to follow new information that is being added almost daily.