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Larry Sanger - Wikipedia Is Broken and No One Wants to Admit It
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Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, tells Brian Rose why he believes Wikipedia is broken, what his Nine Theses would change, and how he came to believe in God.
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Chapters
2:43 Intro: Larry Sanger and Wikipedia
3:46 Brian's story: deplatforming and Wikipedia
8:57 Anonymous editors and Section 230
10:22 How the media landscape changed
14:43 The perennial sources page
18:08 Wikipedia, Google and AI chatbots
24:47 Grokipedia
31:45 Community Notes on X
34:19 Intelligence agencies and PR firms on Wikipedia
39:13 The Twitter Files and being deplatformed
45:09 Sanger on what Wikipedia became
47:26 Sanger's role in founding Wikipedia
50:13 The Nine Theses
57:11 Libel, money and accountability
1:03:28 Who could push reform through
1:09:40 Decentralisation, blockchain and ZWI files
1:18:48 Sanger's spiritual journey
1:37:33 Religion, socialism and society
1:42:26 Where to follow Larry Sanger
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